#lost

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? ↗

— Robert McNamara

#children #civilians #death #doing #had

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#greats #lost #oscar #showbiz #single

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ever #great #great masses #intelligence #lost

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift. ↗

— Michael Milken

#did #even #father #gift #i

And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#course #i #kid #lost #loved

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#big #big fan #books #comic #comic books

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #city #cut #defined #ever

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#day #efforts #happens #history #hope

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#lose #lost #probably #said #whether

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#best #both #chance #closest #feel