Missing Quotes

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Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you… — Frank Herbert
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. — Thomas Carlyle
As Miss Golightly was saying, before she was so rudely interrupted... — Truman Capote
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. — Jack Canfield
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid. — Agatha Christie
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some… — Nick Hornby
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the… — Barbara Kingsolver
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
I'll miss you most of all scarecrow. — L. Frank Baum
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,… — William Shakespeare
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged… — Yann Martel
It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown… — Libba Bray
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. — Max Barry
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
What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? — Jodi Picoult
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually… — Rebecca Solnit
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
We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… — Don DeLillo

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