Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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Don’t talk like that, Dill,†said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.†“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s…
— Harper Lee
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I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making…
— Harper Lee
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It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a…
— Betty Smith
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Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.
— Douglas Adams
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss…
— Robert Frost
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What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are…
— Louise Rennison
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is…
— Boris Pasternak
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...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.
— James Redfield
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The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our…
— James Redfield
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Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success…
— Rick Warren
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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil.…
— Agatha Christie
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Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
— George Eliot
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Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit,…
— George Carlin
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I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things.…
— Anne Rice
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We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
— Jean Toomer
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He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
— Paulo Coelho
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Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then,…
— Neil Gaiman
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the…
— C.S. Lewis
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