Missed Quotes
1177 Missed quotes by 900 unique authors
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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure…
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and…
— Shirley Temple
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Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to…
— Michael Shermer
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The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry…
— Alcee Hastings
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Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird…
— George Best
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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
— Thorstein Veblen
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I'm not really playing for the money, ... I just want to go out there and have fun. I really missed it so much last…
— Kim Clijsters
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I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be…
— Lamar Hunt
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I had never intended to be on the show more than three years, regardless of how successful it was. I had other things I wanted…
— Unknown Author
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When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities…
— Katha Pollitt
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I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it…
— Tama Janowitz
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It…
— Henning Mankell
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We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be…
— Jacque Fresco
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Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.
— Bill Crawford
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I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a…
— Tina Brown
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Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel…
— Michel Houellebecq
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He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think…
— Henri Nouwen
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Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all…
— Robert Plant
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Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game…
— Lodewijk Prins
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Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get…
— James Webb Young
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People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more…
— Ted Simon
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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
— Tom DeMarco
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And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to…
— Garth Brooks
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I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been…
— Darren Clarke
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