Missing Quotes - Page 60

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.

Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss Mattie T. Graham. I thought she needed something in the middle. If she's going to be an honorary Southerner, she's got to have something in the middle, so I just put an initial T and a period.

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.

I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.

Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.