Messy World Quotes

#1. The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

Glennon Melton

#3. I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

William McNamara

#4. I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#5. Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

Eduardo Galeano

#6. The theme of the Bible is not that the world's not messy but that God's at work in the mess.

Matt Chandler

#7. Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who understand that the world isn't made up of happy endings, but messy, complicated, and untidy ones.

Lisa Lutz

#8. Your-no-our free will gives us choices and because we're not perfect, it's not always clear which choice is the right one ... So yes, we can be wrong. Yes the world's a messy place. But a world in which we always knew what was right and had no choice but to do it, that would be a world of puppets.

Emil Ostrovski

#9. Isn't that normal? To want to be alone sometimes?

A J Betts

#10. In a black and white world, Chase and I would never end up together - our mothers had ensured that - but in that small bathroom, under the harsh fluorescent lights, we dragged each other deeper into the gray - the messy, guilt-ridden space that sat between right and wrong.

R.S. Grey

#11. To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world ... Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

Eric Schmidt

#12. The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Michael Shermer

#13. Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It's built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don't even see. It's a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

Bono

#14. In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

Frank Bruni

#15. For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

Masahiro Tanaka

#16. Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.

Rebecca McClanahan

#17. Food matters because it's one of the things that forces us to live in this world
this tactile, physical, messy, and beautiful world
no matter how hard we try to escape into our minds and our ideals. Food is a reminder of our humanity, our fragility, our createdness.

Shauna Niequist

#18. Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and taking them apart again, fitting the pieces together another way until it feels right, as right as she can make it feel.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#19. He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.

Claire Legrand

#20. We no longer harbor the naive presumption that things work out for the best.

Mary T. Stimming

#21. The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.

Todd Stocker

#22. Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Michael Leunig

#23. The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

David Lynch

#24. Most of what brings me solace and peace are nothing more than ghosts of my past, yet I hold tightly to keep them with me in the present for fear that without them, I just might disappear too.

E.K. Blair

#25. Declare the sacred utterances.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

Tony Scott

#27. The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

Eric Close

#28. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business. Yet we have no other world to live in. And

Matt Haig

#29. I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

Patrick Kane

#30. Then, with a stately leap, the sun bounded into the sky, and the whole, messy, beautiful, broken world was stained with fire.

Kate Constable

#31. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#32. Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult truths;

Steve Martin

#33. It's not hard to kill," Ileni said softly, as if discovering it all over again. "Not if you hate someone. It's so very easy."
But it shouldn't be.

Leah Cypess

#34. The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

Daphne Koller

#35. They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

Maureen Johnson

#36. Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.

Jordan Ellenberg

#37. In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans ... From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

John Dos Passos

#38. I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.

Jim Cramer

#39. There is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond

J.K. Rowling

#40. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.

Craig Johnson