Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.
— David Brenner
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is…
— Anthony Storr
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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and…
— Therese of Lisieux
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I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and…
— Al McGuire
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When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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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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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.…
— Ransom Riggs
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If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the…
— Ransom Riggs
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To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's…
— Hayley Williams
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We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar,…
— Andrew Harvey
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Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
— Ed Greenwood
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Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After all, every football…
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
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What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately…
— Elinor Ostrom
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Every time I see a child walking down the street I like to trip them. While they look for their missing teeth, I personally remind…
— Zach Braff
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to…
— May Sarton
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The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back…
— Peter Hain
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When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life.
— Dani Shapiro
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Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed…
— Francis Parkman
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When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales…
— David Bach
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