Top 100 Misses Quotes

#1. When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Misses Quotes #778
#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.

Simeon Strunsky

Misses Quotes #8747
#3. If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

Adam McKay

Misses Quotes #17930
#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.

Doug Collins

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Michaelangelo

Misses Quotes #51402
#7. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

Israelmore Ayivor

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#8. He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea.

Catherynne M Valente

Misses Quotes #60219
#9. The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Thomas A. Edison

Misses Quotes #69874
#10. Expectation is like an arrow if it misses the target it aims back at you with double force.

D.j.

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#11. I Want To Be Known For My Hits, Not Just My Misses.

Fall Out Boy

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#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.

Bill Hamon

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#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.

Junot Diaz

Misses Quotes #84640
#14. For every ten vampires who are happy being monsters, there's always one sad-sack who misses the sunrise.

Tori Centanni

Misses Quotes #108300
#15. I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself.
"Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?

Veronica Roth

Misses Quotes #115596
#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:

Hanya Yanagihara

Misses Quotes #118824
#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

Sudeep Nagarkar

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#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.

Cory Doctorow

Misses Quotes #127132
#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.

Remy De Gourmont

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#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.

T. Colin Campbell

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#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?

Alice Sebold

Misses Quotes #143990
#22. God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Loren Eiseley

Misses Quotes #146908
#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.

Colleen McCullough

Misses Quotes #162313
#24. MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

Anonymous

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#25. Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.

John Steinbeck

Misses Quotes #169203
#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.

Walter Lippmann

Misses Quotes #170153
#27. Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind

Barry Hughart

Misses Quotes #172727
#28. For a time, I missed them like winter misses warmth. I could not breathe without her. I could not feel without him.

Chelsey Philpot

Misses Quotes #173879
#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.

Aminatta Forna

Misses Quotes #183929
#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.

Tarjei Vesaas

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#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.

Kathy Whitworth

Misses Quotes #214777
#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.

Jessica Watkins

Misses Quotes #227676
#33. Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence.

David Mitchell

Misses Quotes #235631
#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.

Carrie Vaughn

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#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.

Nancy Berlinger

Misses Quotes #256914
#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.

Ben Affleck

Misses Quotes #267975
#37. If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Michael Leunig

Misses Quotes #278923
#38. Excessive severity misses its own aim.

Publilius Syrus

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#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.

David Platt

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#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.

Dexter Scott King

Misses Quotes #295695
#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.

Jeev Milkha Singh

Misses Quotes #314013
#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.

Eric Weiner

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#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.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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#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.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Confucius

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

Rudyard Kipling

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#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.

Sophie Blackall

Misses Quotes #354489
#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.

Isabel Wilkerson

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#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.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#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.

Amy Heckerling

Misses Quotes #380251
#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.

Dan Brown

Misses Quotes #424563
#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.

Tom Wells

Misses Quotes #427986
#53. Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Adam Hochschild

Misses Quotes #431236
#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.

Louis Zamperini

Misses Quotes #434517
#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.

Fred Reinfeld

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#56. What befalls me couldn't have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.

Alexandra Burt

Misses Quotes #440725
#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.

Carson McCullers

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#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?

Joanna Brooks

Misses Quotes #456826
#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.

Laurie Perez

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#60. Love the person who has forgotten what it is to be cared for and Ignore the person who just misses the feeling ...

Coco Nicole Estef

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

Anonymous

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#62. I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

Vijay Singh

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#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.

Neal Shusterman

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#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 .

Elizabeth Scott

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#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.

John Steinbeck

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#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.

Julianna Baggott

Misses Quotes #491394
#67. Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Nick Hornby

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#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 -

Stephen King

Misses Quotes #498812
#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.

Charles S. Dutton

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

Michael Eklund

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#71. Of all the imaginable things he most misses about her, the thing he really wishes he could do again is hold her hand in his.

Fredrik Backman

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#72. He also said to tell you that Wolf misses you very much.

Marissa Meyer

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#73. What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

Mark Twain

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#74. Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses.

Marty Rubin

Misses Quotes #540727
#75. Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

Bill Walton

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#76. How does the new leg feel?' I don't point out their question misses a point: even this new leg doesn't feel.

Padma Venkatraman

Misses Quotes #542177
#77. Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

Alan W. Watts

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#78. There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#79. When did all the men in her life become so addlepated over a few country misses?

Sue Barr

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#80. Fella can get so he misses the noise of a saw mill.

John Steinbeck

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#81. Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#82. The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

Laozi

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#83. You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

Andy Roddick

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#84. There are hits and there are misses ... and then there are misses.

Clyde Bruckman

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#85. I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare.

Nick Nolte

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#86. I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.

John Prendergast

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#87. A gold coin says he misses," Fenrys rasped.
"Save your breath for healing," Aelin snapped.
"Make it two," Aedion said behind them. "I say he hits."
"You can all go to hell," Aelin snarled. But then added, "Make it five. Ten says he downs it with the first shot.

Sarah J. Maas

Misses Quotes #615457
#88. GON. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
ANT. The ground indeed is tawny.
SEB. With an eye of green in 't.
ANT. He misses not much.
SEB. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.

William Shakespeare

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#89. A flirtatious soul misses the point of intimate trust relations.

T.F. Hodge

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#90. I didn't know there could be an almost kiss. It seems like the sort of thing that either happens or it doesn't.
Oh no ... There's an entire universe of near misses out there, kisses that almost were, but weren't.

Lauren Willig

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#91. Karma is a perfectionist, it misses no one, it only takes it's time.

Olufunmi Omopariola Olayinka

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#92. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway,

Gabrielle Zevin

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#93. We get back our met as we measure,
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Or can we give pain, and gain pleasure . . .
And sometimes the things our life misses,
Helps more than the thing which it gets . . .

Alice Carey

G.G. Galt

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#94. There is a sky and trees, a high wire fence, a long road, and at the end of it you are there, waiting for me. So glad to see you, I say, misses you so much, thought about you ever day.

A.M. Homes

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#95. To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

E.F. Schumacher

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#96. 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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#97. This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

Ben Hogan

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#98. In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.

Cat Stevens

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#99. Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.

Tori Amos

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#100. Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.

Jim Jordan

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