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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one. -- Beck
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here. -- Haruki Murakami
You know me, I love lost causes. -- Mort Sahl
There's no such thing as a lost cause. -- Ben Sherwood
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. -- Clarence Darrow
I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost. -- Margaret Mitchell
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects -- e. e. cummings
The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle. -- Vaclav Havel
The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave. -- Beth Moore
There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause -- T. S. Eliot
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -- L. Neil Smith
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for. -- Guillermo del Toro
You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause. -- Drew Storen
Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds. -- Erin Morgenstern
You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. -- Ciaran Hinds
..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see? -- Muriel Barbery
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph. -- T. S. Eliot
Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause." -- Robin Williams
Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion. -- Albert Meltzer
You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy. -- Richelle Mead
Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism... of sexism... of religious intolerance... of war... of gross economic inequality But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
There really is something irresistible about a lost cause. -- Stephenie Meyer
Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there. -- Eric Murray
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. -- Vladimir Lenin
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. -- Rose Kennedy
More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. -- Harry Vardon
Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything. -- Tonya Harding
Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -- Eric Hoffer
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. -- Johann Most
INTO THE WILD was a lot of fun, but challenging, 'cause you can get lost in the movement. -- Shannon Leto
The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep. -- Dwight Gooden
I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause. -- Liz Murray
I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose. -- Christopher Fry
When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success. -- Stephen Richards
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. -- Marguerite Young
There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route. -- Urijah Faber
The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost. -- Louis Nizer
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Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? -- Arthur Hugh Clough
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given. -- Guru Nanak
In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason. -- Sarah MacLean
Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart. -- Michael Jackson
I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion. -- Rene Magritte
Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes. -- Kami Garcia
On the set of 'Community,' we quote 'Community' to each other. We're a lost cause. We're like a bunch of little kids running around and yelling things. -- Gillian Jacobs
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost childâ??wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. -- Virginia Woolf
In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause. -- Steig Larsson
We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability. -- Ravi Zacharias

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