Misses Quotes

227 Misses quotes by 182 unique authors

That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If… — Rachel Hartman
The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like… — Ira Progoff
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. — William Cowper
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… — Jacob Bronowski
The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest… — Edward Bok
I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The… — Michael Dowd
I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career… — James Corden
There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that. — Karisma Kapoor
You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses. — Unknown Author
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. — Loren Eiseley
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight… — David Hockney
We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael… — Dennis Miller
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it… — Paula Radcliffe
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the… — Howard Schultz
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. — Bob Woodward
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot… — Hugh Laurie
Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. — Mitch Albom
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the… — Ambrose Bierce
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most… — Warren Ellis
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak… — Neil Gaiman
These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the… — Haruki Murakami
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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