#lost

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#creation #economic #economic prosperity #half #job

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#do you know #five #houses #how #hundred

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#being #being nice #ever #lost #me

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#agenda #allow #been #contact #distract

The left has lost the common touch. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #lost #touch

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#bummed #career #every #every night #first

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. ↗

— Jude Law

#champion #feel #few #general #great

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit "X-Men" because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#because #i #i quit #lifting #lost

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#bother #criminal #had #i #japanese