We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism.
The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.
When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.
The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
We've lost touch with our souls. We've been nourishing our minds, our relational skills, our theological knowledge, our psychological well-being, our physiological health... but we've abandoned our souls.
Long before it was 'Raided' and 'Lost' with Indiana Jones, the Ark of the Covenant was originally stolen from the Israelites by The Philistines; The Ark of the Covenant was the nuclear bomb of its age: when activated, it was devastating.
The police are paid by the public and carry a public trust, and they take an oath to protect us as citizens. The police have lost sight of that and must be reminded that we pay them to protect us, not to simply engage and cage us.
When I was obese, I reached a point where I was about to meet death, and I lost weight to restart my life.
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!
I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.
