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  • Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! -- Matthew Arnold
  • Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way. -- Keith Stanfield
  • 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
  • Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. -- Johann Most
  • Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -- Eric Hoffer
  • 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 would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. -- Marguerite Young
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable. -- Jermaine Jackson
  • Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. -- Charles Stanley
  • It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost. -- Dan Pallotta
  • A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action. -- Mickey Gilley
  • The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. -- David Suzuki
  • You know me, I love lost causes. -- Mort Sahl
  • There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes. -- Russell Kirk
  • An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects -- e. e. cummings
  • I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won. -- Norman Thomas
  • The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave. -- Beth Moore
  • For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for. -- Guillermo del Toro
  • We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh -- James Joyce
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict. -- Michel Chossudovsky
  • I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose. -- Christopher Fry
  • To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature. -- Hermann Hesse
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