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

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
Antonio Tabucchi

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

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Joni Mitchell

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
Tim McGraw

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
Laurence Olivier

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
Hedy Lamarr

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Duke of Wellington

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
Norman MacCaig

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.
Jimmy Haynes

What is left when honor is lost?
Publilius Syrus

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
Publilius Syrus

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom

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

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau