Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer…
— Edith Wharton
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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
— Jonathan Larson
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That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
— Jodi Picoult
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I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom…
— Anne Lamott
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You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a…
— Neil Gaiman
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Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside…
— Jodi Picoult
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
— E. M. Forster
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Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only…
— Paul Gallico
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
— Nhat Hanh
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
— Byron Katie
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Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?
— Audrey Niffenegger
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A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed. "No?" "Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a…
— Jennifer Rardin
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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and…
— Agatha Christie
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Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.
— Tibor Kalman
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I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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