Top 100 Quotes About Messes
#1. Well, I don't care! he exploded.No one messes with the woman I love and gets away with it. I have to avenge you somehow.
Linda Kage
#2. God's great love and purposes for us are all worked out in messes in our kitchens and backyards, in storms and sins, blue skies, the daily work and dreams of our common lives. God works with us as we are and not as we should be or think we should be.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
Andy Rooney
#4. The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.
Brad Wilcox
#5. Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
Phyllis Bottome
#6. I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
Lisa Unger
#7. Yeah, join you. Right. Until you get bored of me and turn me into a Leosicle? Lady, nobody messes with my dragon and gets away with it. I can't believe I thought you were hot.
Rick Riordan
#8. I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
Willie Nelson
#10. This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.
Joel Best
#11. It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.
Jennifer Armintrout
#12. That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains.
K.W. Jeter
#13. I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#14. If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.
Nicole Lyons
#15. From time immemorial we've been cleaning up after male messes. When a man does it for a woman, it's called being rescued. When a woman does it for a man, it's housework.
Kate Meader
#16. I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left side of his chin]. So it kind of messes with my speech a little bit, so don't y'all think that I took too many cos I haven't.
Roy Jones Jr.
#17. If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.
Tom Sizemore
#18. Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.
Emmy Rossum
#19. When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Ed Helms
#20. I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on forever trying to fool each other.
Jamie Quatro
#21. 'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.
Trudi Canavan
#22. Good gravy on biscuits, girlfriend, you are in the middle of more messes than a platter of scrambled eggs. What's going on? Are the planets aligned funny? Or is that unaligned? Shoot, I have no idea. But I need to know what's going on. You and I will be going out for coffee in about thirty seconds.
Paige Shelton
#23. Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes ... Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. - RUSSELL ACKOFF,
Donella H. Meadows
#24. Every time I find something redeeming about you the jerk side messes it up.
Mina Carter
#25. Nobody messes with a girl in combat boots, particularly when she's also a vegetarian.
Meg Cabot
#27. The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.
Robin Sharma
#28. It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#29. A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.
Ryan Lochte
#30. I remember going from rookie ball to A, to double A, then to triple A. At every level it seemed like the game was faster. The bigger the situation, the more the game speeds up. That's all mental. It messes people up.
Derek Jeter
#31. I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
Sam Shepard
#32. The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
Ernest Borgnine
#33. The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
Susane Colasanti
#34. Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.
Gene Simmons
#35. I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.
Ann Rinaldi
#36. When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.
Robert James Thomson
#37. "Do you have any more surprise stowaways up your sleeve?" I ask Morpheus.
Pushing dents out of his hat, he scowls. "I'm starting to fear I didn't bring enough. If there's one thing netherlings are good at, it's cleaning messes."
A.G. Howard
#38. The mind messes up more shots than the body.
Tommy Bolt
#39. Forgive your enemies ... it messes with their heads.
Charles Martin
#40. They reminded Ifemelu of television commercials, of people whose lives were lived always in flattering light, whose messes were still aesthetically pleasing.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#41. She and her friends would talk about their husbands like they were children, or pets - some strange species responsible for bad smells and strange noises and messes they'd have to clean up.
Jennifer Weiner
#42. I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!"
Mitch Hedberg
#43. These days in movies you can always come back to a location or do an insert or do something, so that's not even an issue any more. But coming back every day to the same plane, it messes with your head.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#44. Nobody messes with my boy. Not Abraham Ravenwood, nor the Serpent or Old Scratch himself, you hear?
Kami Garcia
#45. I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.
John Stumpf
#46. My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.
Steven Weinberg
#47. Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.
Zachary Cole Smith
#48. I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb right into them and be there. I just hate it when I'm doing that, and then somebody butts in and messes with my concentration.
Kristen D. Randle
#49. What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one.
Gena Showalter
#50. As much as we sometimes want God to remove us from our messes, more often He just gets in it with us - lifting our heads, giving us strength, helping us put one foot in front of the other as we slosh our way through it
Stacey Thacker
#52. We need to remember how what Christ has already done transforms who we are right now
not later, once we get it together but right now in all the messes we've made.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#53. Destroy if all, then hand what was left over to Robert Suydam and these gathered goons? What would they do differently? Mankind didn't make messes; mankind was the mess.
Victor LaValle
#54. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
Dorothy Parker
#55. Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.
Margo Kingston
#56. She is one of those people who are completely calm and competent, and as a result no one ever messes with her.
Jojo Moyes
#57. Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes as we go, but when you get close, the ridiculous quickly fades into the sordid or the tragic or the merely sad. [p. 73]
Siri Hustvedt
#58. Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.
Deb Caletti
#59. Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.
Beth Moore
#60. I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.
Emma Bunton
#61. Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.
Annia Ciezadlo
#62. Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#63. We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.
Cindy Sheehan
#64. I wish I was a man. A man can do so many things. He can go to sea. He can be a soldier. He can fly. He can crawl in and out of beds. He can get drunk and into messes. Then all he has to do is sober up and take a bath and no one thinks less of him".
Day Keene
#65. I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.
Bonnie Raitt
#66. Real people make messes. They sweat and come. Cry and scream. You're going to be real with me, Bailey. From this point forward I want you to trust me enough to be real.
Riley Murphy
#67. Call it fate--call it talent. I had a knack for getting in the nastiest messes.
Carrie Clevenger
#68. Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
John Milton
#69. When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
Taylor Swift
#70. What happened?"
"I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn't work out."
"The world ain't set up that way. Folks say we oughta be better than we are, but deep down they just want us to stay in our places. With our own kind.
Messes up the natural order, otherwise.
Carolee Dean
#71. The degree that these scenes went to ... there was a couple of days I was upset ... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
Natasha Richardson
#72. No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#73. I'm the dad, the cleanup guy. I deal with the bigger messes. But I also provide more adventures and excitement. It works out.
Laird Hamilton
#74. Not many women got to live out the daydream of women - to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#75. We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.
Merle Haggard
#76. Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
Mark Millar
#77. For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.
Louise Erdrich
#78. Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever.
Catherynne M Valente
#79. You don't always get to chose who you love. Sometimes love chooses you and you just roll with it. Don't question love, or fate butts his ugly ass in and messes everything up.
Brooke Cumberland
#80. If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.
Joyce Meyer
#81. 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
#82. Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Edwidge Danticat
#83. It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
Joyce Meyer
#84. If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.
Joyce Meyer
#85. It messes with my head to call you Hanna. It makes me think you're mine, I didn't add.
Christina Lauren
#86. I've never gotten too high or too low. It only messes you up.
Tim Duncan
#87. the story the Psalms tell is the story Jesus came to complete. It is the story of the creator God taking his power and reigning, ruling on earth as in heaven, delighting the whole creation by sorting out its messes and muddles, its injuries and injustices, once and for all.
N. T. Wright
#88. Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.
Mo Ibrahim
#89. subject for discussion. What terrible messes we get ourselves into when we are silly enough to fall in love,
Sara Donati
#90. We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
Jodi Picoult
#91. You really think love messes everything up?
"Sure do. That's what's so compelling about it.
Wilton Barnhardt
#92. No one messes with my best friend."
"Best friend, eh?"
"You're my only friend, Jess. You win the best title by default.
Nicole Williams
#93. Victoria hated messes. She hated distractions. Friends were the worst distraction of all.
Claire Legrand
#94. I can.
He rent his dark tresses,
Resulting in messes,
Thus prompting his L.I. to flee till,
she reached the end of the world and jumped off.
Perhaps I have untapped potential.
Franny Billingsley
#95. Maybe dying a few times messes with your hormones or something. I kind of like it. His
Lauren Oliver
#96. You're like a five-year-old helping Mommy in the kitchen," Bill muttered, and Michael's mirth vanished. "It would be easier if you were somewhere else, but then I'd have two messes to clean up instead of one." Frustrated,
Kim Harrison
#97. In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kevin O'Leary
#98. I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
Ben Brantley
#99. Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Robert A. Heinlein
#100. JOURNEY: ...no one messes with my family without suffering the consequences.
Bijou Hunter
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