Quotes of Regain - somelinesforyou

“ A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Iraq has regained its independence and held democratic elections for the first time in its history, in order to elect a National Iraqi committee. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it… Time is now. We have only today. ”

- Charles E. Hummel

“ Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. ”

- Josephine Baker

“ Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurred may come again; but the hours lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful purposes. ”

- C. R. Lawton

“ Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then — one day — you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then — one day — you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die… ”

- Denis Leary

“ We do at least need a new liturgical consciousness, to be rid of this spirit of arbitrary fabrication. Things have gone so far that Sunday litugy groups are cobbling together the liturgy for themselves. The most important thing today is that we should regain respect for the liturgy and for the fact that it is not to be manipulated. ”

- Joseph Ratzinger

“ The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission… ”

- Unknown

“ She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past. ”

- Octavio Paz
  • 1