#lost

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it? ↗

— Billy Graham

#everything #gain #lost #soul #suppose

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#been #before #bless #girl #god

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#grown-up #i #known #loss #lost

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

#business #did #felt #film #go

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#between #condition #could #difference #his

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. ↗

— James Wolcott

#dark #door #down #drop #election

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. ↗

— James Wolcott

#become #been #design #iconography #like

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#echo #knowledge #lost #mist #soon

Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#bulls #game #his #left #lost