#lost

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#american history #colony #crazy #doing #drove

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%. ↗

— Scott Walker

#country #during #jobs #like #lost

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. ↗

— John Warner

#around #bear #cost #defend #effort

I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost. ↗

— Steve Waugh

#even #even worse #i #like #lost

One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#even #find #i #kid #long

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#freestyle #i #lost #never #race

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#feels #first #had #learned #lost

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

When I was young I lost everything. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#i #lost #young

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #another way #committed #effort #endeavor