Top 100 Never Lost Quotes
#1. Blake . . . it's inevitable," I said, repeating the words I'd learned. "You've seen it on the horizon. You know what's coming. Paradise is always lost."
"That's a convenient turn of phrase," he said. "But paradise is never lost. Only destroyed.
Heidi Heilig
#2. Hope is never lost, it just has to be found.
Shivam Ralli
#3. I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
Rabbit Maranville
#4. I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.
John Elway
#5. and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with
L.M. Montgomery
#6. We always ken where we are! It's just sometimes mebbe we aren't sure where everything else is, but it's no' our fault if everything else gets lost! The Nac Mac Feegle are never lost!
Terry Pratchett
#7. I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.
Anthea Turner
#8. I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
Eugene Field
#9. Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?
Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter.
Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh?
Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter?
Frank Herbert
#10. You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy."
Mitch Hedberg
#11. Opportunity is never lost ... it simply moves on to someone else if you don't seize it!
Kim Garst
#12. Is language all about desire? Is desire all about loss? Would we ever need to say anything if we never lost anything? Is everything we ever say just another way to express: I will lose this, I will lose all of this. I will lose you?
Charles Yu
#13. I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.
Gordon Bethune
#14. I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.
Marianne Williamson
#15. I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
Jared Harris
#16. After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.
Cathy Guisewite
#17. Life got in the way
two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all the muck that bogs us down when we don't have the balls to stand up for ourselves
but I had never lost my interest in books.
Paul Auster
#18. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
#19. Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.
Vicente Aleixandre
#20. Truth never lost Ground by Enquiry, because she is most of all Reasonable.
Various
#21. But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.
Graham Greene
#22. As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
Douglas Coupland
#23. How could someone who has never lost a parent, a lover, or a best friend have the faintest clue about what any of this means?
Lena Dunham
#24. The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a little crazy. I once broke up with my boyfriend in London and went to an Indian guy's apartment who I didn't know and who told me he saw my aura and gave me a massage.
Ayelet Zurer
#25. I've lost a lot of battles, but I've never lost sight of the war. My goal is to fight my way to a day when we're old and gray and she looks at me and says 'I'm glad you never gave up.' Until then, I fight. No retreat, baby. No surrender.
Hank Moody
#26. Love is never lost. We choose to either return it ... or throw it away
Lenore Wolfe
#27. I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.
Daniel Boone
#28. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...
J.K. Rowling
#29. The root of all of it: he's never lost. He still has both his parents, and any kind of loss he ever went through was his choice, which is always a different kind of loss than the kind that's ripped from you.
Vanessa Garcia
#30. Sweet, there is nothing left to say
But this, that love is never lost
Oscar Wilde
#32. For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.
Andrew Luck
#33. I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
Floyd Abrams
#34. The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.
Duke Ellington
#35. I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.
Eileen Myles
#36. The Recovered Thing is not quite the same as the Thing-never-lost. It is often more precious. As Grace, recovered by repentance, is not the same as primitive Innocence, but is not necessarily a poorer or worse state.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
Sylvester Stallone
#38. This was clearly one of those moments. Mild-mannered, Dexter-Devoted Rita, who never lost her temper and never, never said bad words, was doing both at the same time and directing it all at her innocent-just-this-once husband. But
Jeff Lindsay
#39. I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
Sting
#40. Lady Kimbuck's eyes gleamed. She took the package eagerly. She never lost an opportunity of reading compromising letters. She enjoyed them as literature, and there was never any knowing when they might come in useful.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
Richard M. Nixon
#42. It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
Rumi
#43. Coming back like this to hunt for details for my stories feels a bit like poaching on land that used to be mine. But I've never lost the need to tell of my Alabama, to reveal it, lush and green and full of death. So I return, knowing what I've learned.
Tom Franklin
#44. Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#45. How does a blind man say he was wrong? I thought you were lost, but you were never lost to God.
DiAnn Mills
#46. Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.
Richard Corliss
#47. I've learned ... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
Andy Rooney
#48. I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.
Kathy Reichs
#49. 'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.
Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.
Nenia Campbell
#50. If I want more than sex from this girl, I'll have to fight for it. And I've never lost a fight.
Kelley R. Martin
#51. I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.
Micky Ward
#52. The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
#53. From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
Scott Hamilton
#54. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#55. Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.
Erich Hartmann
#56. Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening.
Vironika Tugaleva
#57. True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Philip Massinger
#58. True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green.
Dante Alighieri
#60. Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way ... Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.
Eudora Welty
#61. Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
Charles Goodnight
#62. Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.
Penelope J. Stokes
#63. River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#64. Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.
Pope Francis
#65. I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world ...
Steven Spielberg
#66. I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.
Rodney Dangerfield
#68. Russia never lost the Cold War ... because it never ended.
Vladimir Putin
#69. I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.
Debra Winger
#70. I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
Jimmy Connors
#71. Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.
Donald Trump
#72. We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
Tom Petty
#73. Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
Plato
#74. Having no destination,
I am never lost.
Ikkyu
#75. In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
Walt Disney
#76. In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The great eternal Government above
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
So beautiful a thing was never lost
In the long run.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#77. I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.
Jane Badler
#78. Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
John Steinbeck
#79. in the month-by-month process of editorial criticism and censorship, Hardy never lost his fierce contempt for all forms of 'tampering with natural truth
Thomas Hardy
#80. The life of one we love is never lost. Its influence goes through every life it ever touched.
Katie Ashley
#81. How he closed down like before. How he gave himself over to the wolf. How he didn't speak for months and months. And yet, the moment he comes home, the moment he sees you again, he finds his voice like he'd never lost it at all.
T.J. Klune
#82. Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.
David Hume
#84. Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. Patton
#85. There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.
Mary E. Pearson
#86. It's never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones.
Steve Maraboli
#87. I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.
Grant Hill
#88. I've never lost to Pete Carroll and I'm not gonna start now.
Charlie Weis
#90. Things are never lost to you; you are lost to them. If ever in need of a Thing that has lost you, simply stop hiding from it.
Shannon Hale
#92. But as long as you know your constellations, you're never lost.
Morgan Matson
#95. Wholeness is never lost, it is only forgotten. Integrity rarely means that we need to add something to ourselves: it is more an undoing than a doing, a freeing ourselves from beliefs we have about who we are and ways we have been persuaded to 'fix' ourselves to know who we genuinely are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#96. I've never lost track of what I stand for and what I believe in. I'm proud of that.
Dave Smalley
#97. The character I'm playing in the film is this driven, workaholic lawyer who has never lost a case. When I'm playing him ... " He paused, his voice softening. Somehow they were now standing just inches apart. "I think of you." When their eyes met, Jason grinned and added, "With a penis.
Julie James
#98. For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#99. There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse ... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.
Julie Powell
#100. My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Louise Bourgeois
