#lost

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. ↗

— George Orwell

#battles #been #lost #opening #probably

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#lost #mind #miss #most #things

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies. ↗

— Clive Owen

#dialogue #each #films #go #hear

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#certain things #fast #game #i #lost

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.' ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#actually #ago #better #care #doctor

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#built #had #happening #i #lost

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours. ↗

— Daley Thompson

#decathlon #hours #i #like #lost

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #because #community #culture #either

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#brought #ceased #dealing #devoted #having