Misses Quotes
227 Misses quotes by 182 unique authors
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I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally…
— Lord Chesterfield
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My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for…
— Al-Shafi‘i
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The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life…
— David Platt
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Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from start to finish;…
— Unknown Author
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Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section…
— Simeon Strunsky
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A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
— Earl Weaver
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The biggest secret about success is that there isn't any big secret about it, or if there is, then it's a secret from me, too.…
— Ed Seykota
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To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great…
— Colleen Houck
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President Obama said in an interview over the weekend that he really misses being anonymous. He said, 'I miss Saturday mornings rolling out of bed…
— Jay Leno
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There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an awareness. A major…
— Ira Progoff
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Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American…
— John Mica
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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere…
— Robert Browning
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
— Cal Hubbard
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It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top…
— Mary Cholmondeley
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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It…
— Virginia Woolf
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Now, Bad Ass, you run your mouth about Summerslam. Well, here's the situation. The Rock says this, if the Rock hits you he'll kill you.…
— Dwayne Johnson
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
— Adam Hochschild
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The idea of searching for some secret for trading success misses the point.
— Ed Seykota
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Excessive severity misses its own aim.
— Publilius Syrus
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What…
— Tom Harpur
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for…
— Jack Dorsey
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And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity…
— Charles S. Dutton
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