Mishaps Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. — Kelsey Grammer
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise. — Anna Wintour
I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because… — Mary Schiavo
Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap,… — Ted Trueblood
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you… — E T A Hoffmann
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the… — Harold Larwood
Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but… — Luigi Cornaro
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give… — Johannes Tauler
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one — Walter Savage Landor
You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have… — Rick Warren
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. — Publilius Syrus
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. — William Westney
We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us… — Steven Biko
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong… — Robert Fulghum
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. — George Herbert
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a… — Elizabeth I
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our… — Christopher Hampton
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. — James Russell Lowell
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be… — Frantz Fanon
My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts,… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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