Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.
Roy Rogers

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
Ben Affleck

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
Jackson Browne

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Sheryl Crow

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson

He who integrates is lost.
Theodor Adorno

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker

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.
Felix Adler

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
Sting

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Jack Henry Abbott

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
Alanis Morissette

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
Etta James

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
Tom Ford

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller

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.
Graham Greene