Best lost & would-be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.”

People Thinking Way Persons Book Use Would Be Hate Turns Reading Lost Voice Internet I Hate Shy Compelling Site

Author:Marisha Pessl

“It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.”

Ifs Would Be Lost Protect Instinct Courage To Love

Author:Emeli Sande

“Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.”

World Believe Kind Made Would Be Lost Fun Wish Gun Horse Riding Make Believe

Author:Ricky Schroder

“Heaven is not so terribly different from this present existence to where we can't even comprehend or understand it. Otherwise, when we arrived there, we would be completely lost and we wouldn't be able to relate to it.”

Different Would Be Able Lost Heaven Existence Relate Heavenly

Author:David Berg

“My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.”

Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Would Be Together America Humanity Passion Lost Justice Advice Mankind He Man Ideals Hatred Sorry Jealous Divides Camps Units Urgent I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”

Source: Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World

“Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.”

Thinking Shows Would Be Lost Mystery Essentials Stripping

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.”

Thinking Long Would Be Lost Alive Baseball

Author:Roberto Clemente

“I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Would Be Running Mother Lost President Focus Dad Incredibles My Dad Glad Our Family

Author:Alexandra Kerry

“If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.”

People Ifs Might Would Be Lost Walks Path Wonderful Tired Woods Venture Beaten Living On New Experiences Beaten Path Confident Woman

Book:The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear

Source: The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear

“Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.”

Ifs Soul Would Be Passion Lost Natural Sin Habit Difficulty Charity Mortals Sensitive Potency Mortal Sin

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.”

“If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.”

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”

Ifs Country Happens Would Be Lost Class Position International Reactions Communism Eras Republic Throat Capitalist Oppressed Working Class Smashing

Author:Joseph Stalin

“To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.”

Source: The Greening of America

“It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.”

Ifs War Ends Would Be Games Lost Fine Drink Battle Fine Things

Author:David Gemmell

“Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.'”

Said Would Be Lost Liberty Teeth Entitled Ben Carson

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.”

Ifs Thinking Long Stories Would Be Lost Sports Hours Memories Magic Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Evening Charm Lakes Fishing Camps Brooks Cottages Inns Anglers

Book:I Go A-fishing

Source: I Go A-fishing

“Success does not necessarily create happiness. I could take you on a tour of West Lost Angeles. You would be surprised that happiness does not blossom in Beverly Hills any more than it does in most places.”

Doe Would Be Success Lost Careers Buddhism West Hills Beverly Hills

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.”

Writing Wells Use Would Be Purpose Names Lost Morning Forever Imagine Minutes Conditions Balance Draws Advantage Accounts Credit Portions Cents Every Morning

Author:Ann Landers

“The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.”

Way May Would Be Lost Grows Rooms Travel Tables Complaining Intimate Seats Hotel Motor Voyages Tourists Dining Dining Rooms

Author:Agnes Repplier

“I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.”

Thinking Would Be Pain Lost Wish Realizing Emotional Arms Legs Disability Physical Pain True Things Mental Pain

Author:Nick Vujicic

“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”

World Would Be Literature Lost Protection Harm Wander Dumb Innocence Bells Wiser Leper Prudishness

Author:Graham Greene

“What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?”

People Ifs Dream Would Be Lost Ability

Author:Martha Albrand

“I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.”

People Ifs Would Be Able Lost Minutes Lucky Clouds Kicks Great People One Minute Great Family

Author:Emma Stone

“If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!”

Ifs Would Be Lost Poor Grief Pay Grieving Sooner Or Later Penalties

Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Moments Feelings Might Would Be Moving Lost Left Magic Particular Return Eternity Factors Spots Made It Integrated Magic Moments

Book:Cemetery World

Source: Cemetery World

“Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.”

Would Be Lost Atheism Dog Train Positive Atheism Infant Tag Damnation

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.”

Thinking Knows Want Two War Would Be School Christian Lost Attitude Kindness Blood Victory England Regard Surrender Latter Thirsty Loving Kindness

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.”

Persons Would Be Lost Valuable Titles Rubbish

Author:Josh Billings

“Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.”

Would Be Values Culture Lost Class Salvation Ill Bourgeois

Author:Norman Podhoretz

“There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.”

“If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and I really think something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Problem Bigs Would Be Lost Amount Crowds Clubs If I Could Contests Venues Auditoriums

Author:Joe Rogan

“For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Ideas Would Be Lost Powerful Knowing Mystery Shame Classic Breakfast You Choose Not Knowing Very Powerful Seductive Exposing

Author:Theo James

“The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.”

Trying Believe Littles Play Character Would Be Purpose Lost I Believe Bits Acting Diversity Little Bit Eighteen

Author:Columbus Short

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