“Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.” StillsWarEndsStatesIndividualLostLossSeriousGermanyAssetsTerritoryHistorianParticipationColonizationMeaning Nothing Author:Gustav Stresemann
“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsLooksHeartCountryAbleLostProcessChanceTreeDangerousSeriousRootsSickStrangerVulnerableSoilBelongingLackingRefugeeRidiculeMisunderstoodSuspicious Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp
“When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just had to pay the inheritance tax.” HeartYoungFatherHouseLostPayCarSeriousTaxesSurvivedInheritanceMedicareHeart AttackInheritance Tax Author:Emo Philips
“Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.” HumansTogetherLostForceInterestSeriousMeetingsConsiderationCustomsNeverthelessTopicsAssemblyExaltedAdmittingContention Author:Felix Adler
“We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.” NeedsHas BeensLightFormLostPowerfulEffortSeriousHistoricalCastsNostalgiaImpulseInquiryEnergizing Author:T. J. Jackson Lears
“We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.” PeopleThinkingLostSeriousRidiculousAngle Author:Andrew VanWyngarden
“I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.” MenWorldThreeLostSeriousThree TimesExplorersEverestVenezuelaNorth Pole Author:Brian Blessed
“Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.” WorldStoriesLostSeriousDefeatParadise Book:Chimes at Midnight Source: Chimes at Midnight
“Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.” StatesThreeLostParticularSeriousTrumpCaliforniaVotersFraudVirginiaHampshireNew HampshireVoter Fraud Author:Audie Cornish
“A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is imperative to good writing - I just don't know how you can be a serious writer without it.” KnowsWorldWritingHas BeensLostKnow HowSeriousOughtEngagementImperativesGood Writing Author:Pankaj Mishra