Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Grahame

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Mahatma Gandhi

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

Epicurus

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Emily Giffin

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

Emily Dickinson

I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

Jim Edmonds

Am I going to miss it? I won't miss the stadium when I play in the new one next year.

Hattie McDaniel

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had

Henry R. Luce

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Henry Fielding

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

Helen Fielding

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Khalil Gibran

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

Naomie Harris

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

Norman Maclean

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Oliver Stone

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

Merle Haggard

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Mason Cooley

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

Mary Alice

We are all searching for someone, that special person, who will provide what's missing in our lives -- One who can offer companionship, assistance or security. And sometimes when we can search very hard who can provide us with all three. Yes, we are all searching for someone. And if we can't find them we can only pray they find us.

Michael Connelly

I never miss L.A. because I'm there enough.

Michelle Williams

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Ted Turner

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

Mandy Patinkin

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

Louise Bourgeois

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

Joan Jett

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

Erik Qualman

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

Eric Liddell

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

Ralph Bakshi

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.