Quotes and Sayings About Missing
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It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
-- Aaron Spelling -
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
-- Abba Eban -
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
-- Abba Eban -
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
-- Abba Eban -
He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.
-- Abbi Glines -
Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.
-- Abigail Reynolds -
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
-- Abraham Maslow -
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
-- Adam Hochschild -
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
-- Agatha Christie -
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
-- Agatha Christie -
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 affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....
-- Agatha Christie -
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
-- Agnes de Mille -
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
-- Aidan Chambers -
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 told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
-- Al McGuire -
I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
-- Al Yankovic -
My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
-- Alain de Botton -
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
-- Alain de Botton -
No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
-- Alan Arkin -
Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
-- Alan Cohen -
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
-- Alan Cumming -
I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
-- Alan Hansen -
He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
-- Alan Hansen -
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
-- Alan Shearer -
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
-- Alan Watts