First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
Maria Callas

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter

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

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
Robert Duvall

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

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
Kate Moss

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Edward R. Murrow

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
Haruki Murakami

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
William Westmoreland

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

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Federico Garcia Lorca

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

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
John Greenleaf Whittier