Lost Objects Quotes

#1. To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

Clive Cussler

#2. With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

Jason Aaron

#4. Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Mitt Romney

#5. A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Jenny Offill

#6. I will not return to a universe
of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children of one great continent

Lisel Mueller

#7. Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

Vandana Shiva

#8. So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.

Amy Tan

#9. Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

Malcolm Forbes

#10. It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

Sloane Crosley

#11. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#12. Who strive not for objects unattainable, grieve not for what lost and gone be,
Who suffer not mind clouded amid mishap, have intellect with wisdom truly.
[26] - 33 Mahatma Vidur

Munindra Misra

#13. It was Frankie Lymon all over again," Marvin said. "Only this kid had mastered James Brown's moves. Michael was like Stevie. From the very beginning, he worried me.

David Ritz

#14. Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor

Yasmine Galenorn

#15. Sir 51:38 Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward in his time.

Various

#16. Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a romance of days past that I am drawn to like a soul lost and hearing his lovers cries to him

Rob Shepherd

#17. In my experience even inanimate objects have a will of their own, and they won't be found until they want to be, until they're good and ready, she says.

Menna Van Praag

#18. If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

Robert Baden-Powell

#19. Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

Sophie Swetchine

#20. There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.

Amy Davidson

#21. Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#22. His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence.

Vladimir Nabokov

#23. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost

Russell Baker

#24. If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan