Top 100 Once Lost Quotes
#1. Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
John Milton
#2. To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.
J.I. Packer
#3. I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox,
... But that's another topic.
Diamond D
#4. It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
Mark Twain
#5. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.' Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.
Matt Haig
#6. A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.
Isaac Newton
#8. Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We see the results of the assaults against freedom all around us.
Roger Kimball
#10. I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.
Jim Butcher
#11. Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?
Thomas Hardy
#12. Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.
Desmond Tutu
#13. Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#14. We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return
Antoine De Pluvinel
#15. Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
Yasmin Mogahed
#16. Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
Sydney J. Harris
#17. I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God's way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.
Kimberly Novosel
#18. An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this: " Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again.
Douglas Preston
#19. Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
Josh Billings
#20. Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro' the spirit's gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#21. Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily
H. Leighton Dickson
#22. For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
Susan Hill
#23. Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with things. Time is precious and once lost cannot be regained. Make every moment count...you never know when your time will be up.
Kemi Sogunle
#24. In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it
Jerry Sloan
#25. I once lost something in precious in this place.
But I think it's by losing things...
... that we grow up to be adults.
Inio Asano
#26. Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy
Gunnar Myrdal
#27. Integrity is like virginity: once lost, never recoverable
Julian Barnes
#30. The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.
Gerald Vann
#31. A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
#32. Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.
Ovid
#33. Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you cannot contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer
#34. When the pieces fell around him, he'd pick them up.
It was what he was good at, after all.
Restoring what was once lost, what could never be perfectly whole again.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#35. A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
Vladimir Nabokov
#37. Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards ... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.
Alexander H. Stephens
#38. So relax into life, breathe deep and let go.
Attain what you need but don't sell your soul.
For it's a treasure far beyond the mere baubles of men
and once lost, much harder to earn back again.
(From the poem "Gratitude" by Mark Rickerby)
Mark Rickerby
#39. peace and happiness and wisdom, and these once lost are harder to recapture.
Anonymous
#40. Liberty once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
#41. We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Seneca The Younger
#42. We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he's found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He's still lost.
Lisa Renee Jones
#43. What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?
Brian Celio
#44. Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.
R.L. LaFevers
#45. Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!
Heather Mitts
#47. Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#48. My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
Patrick Rothfuss
#49. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself ... My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy
Jane Austen
#50. I look at him and he doesn't scare me. He lures me. He tempts me, exhilarates me. He makes me want to claim him as if I'm claiming back a part of me that was once lost. Makes me want to tame him. Let him tame me.
Katy Evans
#52. If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it ...
Benjamin Franklin
#53. But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.
Ryu Murakami
#54. I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.
Robert Dabney
#55. The heart will find solace after a lost love, but once the soul is betrayed and broken it will always bleed and the wounds will never really heal,,,,
Camelia C.
#56. I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Emo Philips
#57. I have never been lost but I was bewildered once for three days.
Daniel Boone
#58. He could never stand still but now
Something that had once been my son
Lay there restless spirit
Who left the house one rainy night
And never returned
Lost boy
Who will never be found again
Anywhere but eternity
Edward Hirsch
#59. I once heard about a botanist in Hawaii with a knack for finding new species by getting lost in the jungle, by going beyond what he knew and how he knew, by letting experience be larger than his knowledge, by choosing reality rather than the plan.
Rebecca Solnit
#60. They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!
Yasmine Bleeth
#61. What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
Ted Dekker
#62. PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.
Max Levchin
#63. Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
Kenneth Koch
#64. I search on my drum for the land of the Poles and drum: lost, not yet lost, lost once more, lost to whom, lost too soon, lost by now, Poland's lost, all is lost, Poland is not yet lost.
Gunter Grass
#65. Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#66. KING (to Sakuntala): O fair lady!
The tear drop that once stood
trembling on your lower lip
-and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion-
while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes,
I shall now wipe away, my beloved,
to free myself of remorse.
Kalidasa
#67. Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.
William Stanley Jevons
#68. Once it is accepted that nothing can change, that nothing can come out of nothing, and that nothing is ever lost, then nature must consist of infinitesimal blocks that can join and separate again.
Jostein Gaarder
#69. And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds - a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...
E. M. Forster
#70. He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
W. Somerset Maugham
#71. For once I thought I was dead; for once I thought I had lost everything, and for once I thought all was over for me, but I saw the amazing grace of God over me!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. Once, while living in New York City in the early 2000s, I was asked to leave a sports bar because the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!
Mindy Kaling
#73. This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.
Robert Browning
#74. There were tears once or twice. But they were not for the men she had lost or the men she had left. They were quiet tears for herself, because there was something inside her that was badly hurt.
Patrick Rothfuss
#75. We have lost, as James Hillman once put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses.
Stephen Harrod Buhner
#76. The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.
Holly Black
#77. A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.
Jerome Lawrence
#78. He's lost everything once, and now, he wasn't sure if he had anything left to lose.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#79. I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
#80. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Once something is shattered, it can never be put back together in its original shape. Undoubtedly some pieces are lost or fit into incorrect places. The whole will never be as strong as it was once before.
T.J. Klune
#82. Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.
Anita Shreve
#83. Her arms reached up to wrap around his neck, holding on as if she would never let go. She kissed him back with an ardor that astonished, gratified, and aroused him all at once, and for a moment, he lost himself in the kiss, and in the woman, thinking to himself, now this, this is magic.
Deborah Blake
#84. Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
Twyla Tharp
#85. She had gone to the state fair in Columbus once with her sister Clarice and they had gotten lost in the House of Mirrors and Clarice's purse had been stolen by a man who had pretended to be a reflection until the very last moment.
David Foster Wallace
#86. Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
Randy Johnson
#87. Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
Ernest Hemingway,
#88. Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none.
Rob Sheffield
#89. How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.
Bryan Davis
#90. I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night ...
John Geddes
#91. I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
John Newton
#92. Where do memories go once we've lost our ability to summon them? It
Anthony Doerr
#93. OK, I confess. I Googled him once. Maybe twice. Oh, all right, so I've lost count over the years. But so what? Who hasn't gone home and Googled a man they're in love with? Hang on - did I just say the L word?
- Lucy
Alexandra Potter
#94. Society gained more by not placing excessive power in the hands of mediocre politicians than it lost by limiting the power of great heroes and statesmen who might or might not appear once every few centuries.
Yoshiki Tanaka
#95. No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.
Ray Bradbury
#96. And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.
David Housholder
#97. And loving a new person might even eventually dull the pain of having lost the people you have loved before, even if it didn't happen as quickly as you wanted it to. (p 99)
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#98. Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
Geoff Mulgan
#99. I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once, I catch my reflection: it looks like I've been punched in both eyes.
I can't talk about the day that follows that.
Nina LaCour
#100. The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.
Gloria Steinem
