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  • 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.

    Mother   Taken   Winning  
  • All this time…ever since I sold my soul, I’ve been clinging to this idea that there is something pure and decent out there. That there was something to give me hope that even if I was a lost cause, at least there was something bright and good in the world. But there isn’t. If there was, Seth wouldn’t have fallen. Erik wouldn’t have died. Andrea Mortensen wouldn’t be dying.” -Georgina to Carter

    Ideas   Giving   Soul  
    Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.272, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • ..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?

    Today   Causes   Becoming  
  • Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides. Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?" It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes." I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo. Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?

    James A. Owen (2010). “The Indigo King”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 Ehrlich and the Population Bomb". PBS video produced by David Suzuki,
  • More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

  • 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 (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Now is the time to take stock of a painful part of our history. Only then can we move past it. Anything less would render generations of courageous struggle and soul-searching a truly lost cause. A lot of Canadians don't seem to want to hear it. All I can say to them is: try to listen. Open your heart, your mind. The Indian Act and residential schools did a number on us, breaking down Indigenous people, then families, communities, nations. We can learn so much from each other. There is so much to be hopeful for.

    Struggle   Moving   Heart  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.

    Light   House   Shining  
  • 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.

    Mean   Saint   Three  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

    Real   Taken   Hands  
    "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.
  • 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.

    Imagination   Mind   Want  
    "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, books.google.ru. October 10, 2011.
  • 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.

    Mean   Epic   Race  
    Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.19, Penguin
  • Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

    Lost Love   Rap   Hip Hop  
  • I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

  • 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.

    Art   Goal   Victory  
    Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley
  • The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

    "From Prisoner to President - A Tribute". Amnesty International essay,
  • The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

    Pits   Causes   Lost  
    Beth Moore (2015). “Looking Up: Trusting God With Your Every Need”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

    Weakness   Causes   Lost  
    "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.
  • For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

    Fighting   Stuff   Causes  
    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • 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."

    Men   Night   Als  
    Source: www.rd.com
  • There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

    T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There really is something irresistible about a lost cause.

    Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company
  • We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

  • Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

    Fighting   Causes   Lost  
  • Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

    Loyalty   Home   Names  
    Essays in Criticism First Series, preface (1865)
  • That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that’s bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they’ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.

    Fall   Thinking   People  
    Chevy Stevens (2011). “Still Missing”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

  • Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I'll start by taking a step at a time And stop throwing my blessings away I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off And take back some of the pride that I've lost 'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down

    Song   Fall   Pride  
    Song: We All Fall Down
  • Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

    War   Night   Boredom  
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