Misses Him Quotes

#1. When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. - Author: Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#2. Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door. - Author: Simeon Strunsky

#3. If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans. - Author: Adam McKay

#4. Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league. - Author: Doug Collins

#5. But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different - that courage is in some sense acquired. - Author: Malcolm Gladwell

#6. The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits. - Author: Michaelangelo

#7. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track. - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#8. He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea. - Author: Catherynne M Valente

#9. The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. - Author: Thomas A. Edison

#10. Expectation is like an arrow if it misses the target it aims back at you with double force. - Author: D.j.

#11. I Want To Be Known For My Hits, Not Just My Misses. - Author: Fall Out Boy

#12. The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate. - Author: Bill Hamon

#13. It is probably her son she misses, or the father. Or our whole country, which you never think of until it's gone, which you never love until you're no longer there. - Author: Junot Diaz

#14. For every ten vampires who are happy being monsters, there's always one sad-sack who misses the sunrise. - Author: Tori Centanni

#15. I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself.
"Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is? - Author: Veronica Roth

#16. Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have: - Author: Hanya Yanagihara

#17. When a girl cries over a guy, it means that she misses him. But when a guy cries over a girl, it means that no one else can love that girl more than he does - Author: Sudeep Nagarkar

#18. I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust. - Author: Cory Doctorow

#19. Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary.
He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place. - Author: Remy De Gourmont

#20. The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy. - Author: T. Colin Campbell

#21. Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that's who. They know where they are, do you, do you? - Author: Alice Sebold

#22. God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. - Author: Loren Eiseley

#23. Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment. - Author: Colleen McCullough

#24. MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses. - Author: Anonymous

#25. Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man. - Author: John Steinbeck

#26. Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions. - Author: Walter Lippmann

#27. Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind - Author: Barry Hughart

#28. For a time, I missed them like winter misses warmth. I could not breathe without her. I could not feel without him. - Author: Chelsey Philpot

#29. There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody dies, except in novels. - Author: Aminatta Forna

#30. I like the modern form. Anyone who absolutely has to understand everything he sees misses a lot. It's not always true that obscure words come from obscure thoughts. - Author: Tarjei Vesaas

#31. There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter. - Author: Kathy Whitworth

#32. You can remove someone from your mind, but the most difficult task is removing them from your heart. No matter how bad a nigga treats you, once you love him, that love for him still misses him when he's gone. - Author: Jessica Watkins

#33. Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence. - Author: David Mitchell

#34. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever. - Author: Carrie Vaughn

#35. The taxonomy of medical error is vast, colorful, and at times confusing. There are slips, lapses, harmless hits, and near misses; errors of omission and of commission; operator errors, system errors, accidents, complications, and bad outcomes. - Author: Nancy Berlinger

#36. I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such. - Author: Ben Affleck

#37. If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. - Author: Michael Leunig

#38. Excessive severity misses its own aim. - Author: Publilius Syrus

#39. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach. - Author: David Platt

#40. 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 don't protect it, you lose it. - Author: Dexter Scott King

#41. Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me. - Author: Jeev Milkha Singh

#42. The bull's-eyes end up in museums and on library shelves, not the misses. Which, when you think about it, is a shame. It feeds the myth that geniuses get it right the first time, that they don't make mistakes, when, in fact, they make more mistakes than the rest of us. - Author: Eric Weiner

#43. I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#44. But don't pull me down or strangle me, he replied: for the Misses Eshton were clinging about him now; and the two dowagers, in vast white wrappers, were bearing down on him like ships in full sail. - Author: Charlotte Bronte

#45. The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again. - Author: Confucius

#46. When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next. - Author: Rudyard Kipling

#47. There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described ... I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those. - Author: Sophie Blackall

#48. That's why I preach today. Do not do spite," he said. "Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object that you aim and comes back and zaps you. And you're the one who pays for it. - Author: Isabel Wilkerson

#49. Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize. - Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#50. Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise. - Author: Amy Heckerling

#51. The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?
Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes. - Author: Dan Brown

#52. Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does not bring him one ounce of sovereignty. God rules even when men imagine they are defying Him. - Author: Tom Wells

#53. Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. - Author: Adam Hochschild

#54. If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts. - Author: Louis Zamperini

#55. Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination. - Author: Fred Reinfeld

#56. What befalls me couldn't have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me. - Author: Alexandra Burt

#57. In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it. - Author: Carson McCullers

#58. Who watches over us when we leave? Who remembers our names when disappear ourselves from home? Who hears the absence of our voices? Who misses the sound of our stories? - Author: Joanna Brooks

#59. I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the earth, I see -
- architects and earthquakes - empaths and robots - fictions and near misses - lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.
I see us - trying on ways of being - so sweet and messy, so worthwhile. - Author: Laurie Perez

#60. Love the person who has forgotten what it is to be cared for and Ignore the person who just misses the feeling ... - Author: Coco Nicole Estef

#61. 2. Desire [1] without knowledge is not good, and whoever c makes haste with his feet misses his way. - Author: Anonymous

#62. I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here. - Author: Vijay Singh

#63. The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?"
Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation.
"I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says. - Author: Neal Shusterman

#64. After a couple of days of complete hell , rest is at the top of the agenda. As he fades away to an overdue peacefulness, he misses her . - Author: Elizabeth Scott

#65. Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses - the whole world over his fence. - Author: John Steinbeck

#66. But she's still afraid that the more she misses him
his face, his skin, the way he looked at her
and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose. - Author: Julianna Baggott

#67. Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. - Author: Nick Hornby

#68. You'll float down here with your friends, Beverly, we all float down here, tell Bill that Georgie says hello, tell Bill that Georgie misses him but he'll see him soon, tell him Georgie will be in the closet some night with a piece of piano wire to stick in his eye, tell him - - Author: Stephen King

#69. And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is. - Author: Charles S. Dutton

#70. I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. - Author: Michael Eklund

#71. Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot. - Author: Bill Walton

#72. She misses him more now than when he was away - Author: Melina Marchetta

#73. I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him. - Author: Luther Lassiter

#74. The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived. - Author: David Platt

#75. Mr. Rochester had again summoned the ladies round him, and was selecting certain of their number to be of his party. "Miss Ingram is mine, of course," said he: afterwards he named the two Misses Eshton, and Mrs. Dent. He looked at me: I happened to be near him, as I had been fastening - Author: Charlotte Bronte

#76. She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him. - Author: Elizabeth Scott

#77. I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much. - Author: David Levithan

#78. Mostly he misses Jutta: her loyalty, her obstinacy, the way she always seems to recognize what is right. Though in Werner's weaker moments, he resents those same qualities in his sister. Perhaps she's the impurity in him, the static in his signal that the bullies can sense. - Author: Anthony Doerr

#79. It's a contention of Heat Moon's
believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get
that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him. - Author: William Least Heat-Moon

#80. I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. - Author: Markus Zusak

#81. And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river. - Author: Rumi

#82. In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn't thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right. - Author: David Nicholls

#83. A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you. - Author: Jacob Braude

#84. A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place. - Author: Albert King

#85. She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. - Author: Kate Chopin

#86. The whole composition reminds him of something he once had and that he isn't sure if he misses. He does and he doesn't at the same time. It is less the melancholy memory of an abscence and more the comforting evidence that it exists and is still part of the world. - Author: Daniel Galera

#87. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. - Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

#88. I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself. - Author: Trish Stratus