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- Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
- Bible, John vi. 12.
- Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.
- George Lucas (1944 - ), Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
- What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.
- Ethel Percy Andrus
- Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - )
- True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou (1928 - ), I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. - Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
- In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
- Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
- The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha (1951), Chapter: Awakening
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