As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
Robert Teeter
InfluenceSocietyLostMoreAbility
I'm always drawn to strong female leads, so that's what drew me to 'Lost Girl.' I was a 'Buffy' fan and watched it with friends every week. I was also a big fan of 'Alias' when that was on - they both had strong female leads, and that's what draws me in the most.
Anna Silk
GirlMeStrongFriendsWeekLost
I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.
Hugh Grant
EnthusiasmActingLostDoneLittle
I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.
Jake LaMotta
FightMeLostFoxBecauseGet
I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.
Jeff Ament
TimeGrowing UpEnoughLostHealthy
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler
TogetherMeetingLostSeriousHuman
I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
Derek Kilmer
LifeMoneyInsuranceLostOverSave
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.
Richard Flanagan
MoneyPoliticsGovernmentBlackLost
When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.
Bo Derek
WomenFaceYouUniqueLookLost
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
BookDesertJudgeHouseLostThree
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
Ron Fournier
LeadershipFaithCongressLostNorm
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
HonorLostMustOnlyWon
My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.
Homer Hickam
FatherEyeTryingLostTrappedHe
I was kind of lost for several years.
Katey Sagal
LostKindYearsSeveral
I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.
Michael Gove
FishingControlCountryLostOthers
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Cameron Mackintosh
MeThinkLostKnowDoneLiving
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Diana Cooper
SpaceMindMeSmallLimitsLost
I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
Ryan Tedder
LostLaptopsTerribly
The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
CeeLo Green
LoveYouLostNeedNumbSomething
I just lost interest in performing.
Taylor Sheridan
LostInterestJustPerforming
I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible.
Ry Cooder
MoneyMeRoadLostNeverAlways
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
FuturePastPresentFindLostOpen
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.
Hermann Maier
WinToo MuchLostBecauseRivals
The game is never lost till won.
George Crabbe
GameLostNeverWonTill
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