Top 100 The Missing Quotes
#1. I'm not looking for much, I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job ... and the missing half of this golden amulet.
Maria Bamford
#2. It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
John Perry Barlow
#3. The sense of the missing member of the party was a fog low over the patio, changing the look and feel of everything.
Nichole Bernier
#4. Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next.
Oscar Lopes
#5. As we walked to Fr Walsh's office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten for the missing page fiasco, and he told me, straight-faced, that his last thrashing was because his dad was a milkman.
James Berryman
#6. I love you, James Bell. I love you with all of my heart. You are the missing piece from my life.
Renae Kaye
#7. Put all of your savings on autopilot, and you won't likely notice the missing cash.
Jean Chatzky
#8. The words of this Book have a way of filling in the missing pieces, of bridging the gaps, of turning the tarnished colors of our life to jewel-like brilliance. Learn to take your every problem to the Bible. Within its pages you will find the correct answer.
Billy Graham
#9. I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.
Sheryl Sandberg
#10. Three years later, Mr. Turley has received no reply to his letter. Nor can anybody account for the missing money: saints, it seems, are immune to audit.
Christopher Hitchens
#11. How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
Bjork
#12. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.
Hope Edelman
#13. You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.
Kristin Hannah
#14. Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.
Howard Carter
#15. The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves.
Konrad Lorenz
#16. That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
Amy Tan
#17. Life is like a puzzle just fit in the missing parts
Thabiso Monkoe
#18. The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Raheel Farooq
#19. When things go wrong, your best recovery effort is required. But don't just provide the missing piece (that's the recovery), also provide uniquely personal assistance (that's the memorable effort).
Ron Kaufman
#20. All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.
John Yorke
#21. His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he'd tell me Ivy had it.
Kim Harrison
#22. She is a rare soul, she has this infectious energy that makes you want to run next to her, she belonged to no one but herself & to anyone that was yet understand themselves, found the missing pieces in her presence.
Nikki Rowe
#23. Water overflowed from the broken guttering, cascading from the missing down pipe over the flaky clapboard siding. A faded tarpaulin nailed over a window appeared to breathe as the wind sucked it in and puffed it out again.
Tracey Alvarez
#24. If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled and the survivors may toss the non-survivors overboard and arrange a story as to how the missing men were lost at sea.
Jack London
#25. A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
Kenneth Grahame
#26. I can't lose you," I whisper. "Not when I feel like my life is finally falling into place. You were the missing piece. You were the cheese to my macaroni.
Kendall Ryan
#27. Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath's stomach.
Rainbow Rowell
#28. There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
Kate Thompson
#29. Not quite a room, Jeevan thought now, looking around the stage. It was too transitory, all those doorways and dark spaces between wings, the missing ceiling. It was more like a terminal, he thought, a train station or an airport, everyone passing quickly through.
Emily St. John Mandel
#30. Warning: This book contains graphic language, sex, lies, intrigue, clowns, kleptomania, anal sex, oral sex, mutual masturbation, bad driving, good cooking, and the missing head of a Justin Timberlake statue. Not for the sour of disposition.
L.B. Gregg
#31. You are the missing piece of my heart and soul. United we are now whole.
Truth Devour
#32. The technology is here; it's never been easier to communicate and collaborate with people anywhere, any time. But that still leaves a fundamental people problem. The missing upgrade is for the human mind.
Jason Fried
#33. You're the missing piece I need
The song inside of me
I need to find you
I gotta find you
Demi Lovato
#34. For the first time in my life, I've felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins.
J.A. Redmerski
#35. The missingness of the missing. We know what that feels like. Every endeavor, every kiss, every stab in the heart, every letter home, every leaving, is a ransack of what's in front of us in the service of what's lost.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. Broken people do things better; we learned how to make it in life without the missing parts other people have. Because when you're in the dark, you appreciate everything that shines.
L.J. Shen
#37. You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid." -The Missing
Tim Gautreaux
#38. Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.
Laura Riding
#39. Knowing they were in the same city made the missing him flare up inside her.
Rainbow Rowell
#40. I am a searcher ...
I always was ... and I still am ...
searching for the missing piece.
Louise Bourgeois
#41. I'd do the lifting, but I just got a manicure. And I notice you don't have a manicure at all. Only thing noticeable about your hands is the missing tan on your ring finger that I don't care about. -Lula
Janet Evanovich
#42. But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.
Elizabeth Wein
#43. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
Douglas Adams
#44. I missed 'em, sure enough, true and deep and hard, but the loving was stronger than the missing.--Joseph Johnson on p. 233 Some Kind of Courage
Dan Gemeinhart
#45. The missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half
Kami Garcia
#46. Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.
Nawal El Saadawi
#47. It's always at the hour of trouble and confrontation that the missing member aches.
James Baldwin
#48. Oops! This young scientist tried to clean his friends' copper ID bracelets. But the acid was too strong and it removed part of each letter! Question: Can you add the missing lines to complete the letters and see to whom each bracelet belongs?
Tom Robinson
#49. She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie
Liane Moriarty
#50. They did have that connection, and when he was with Clair, it just felt right. As if she were the missing piece to his broken life.
Loni Flowers
#51. Now I knew what it felt like touching your perfect other - the missing half.
Pepper Winters
#52. I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.
Konrad Lorenz
#53. If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.
Brendan Eich
#54. Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.
Anthony Liccione
#55. If you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.
Jodi Picoult
#56. god bless the man with the beard, the missing teeth and the poverty Ritchie
Markus Zusak
#57. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am.
Jeanette Winterson
#58. I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be rewoven.
Louise Bourgeois
#59. You are the missing piece to make me human. I feel it, coursing through me. I have no doubts. You were made for me, we were meant to be one.
Ashlan Thomas
#60. The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now."
Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.
Gail Carson Levine
#61. All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.
John Eldredge
#63. I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there.
George Carlin
#64. Alma didn't want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn't shush until sundown.
"I've found the missing lady," Alma said. "Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.
Ed Lynskey
#65. Our God is a three-part being (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). Mark T. Barclay-The Missing Red Letters
Mark T. Barclay
#66. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel like I've found the missing piece of myself, the better half of my soul.
Eva Simone
#67. She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the missing distanced itself from her heart. One day she woke, and realized the missing was there but the pain was gone. Missing without pain is tolerable. Pain linked to heartache is intolerable.
Coco J. Ginger
#68. Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.
Pierre Bayard
#69. You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
David Chipperfield
#70. Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#71. The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand ...
Alina Radoi
#73. The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
#74. A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.
Caroline Leavitt
#75. I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.
Oliver Harris
#76. You give the air of looking for someone, Sophie had said. But I think the missing person is yourself. Each
John Le Carre
#77. When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
John Barrymore
#78. And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#79. I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
Abraham Maslow
#80. Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.
Chris Fabry
#81. I'll fill in the missing voids of your heart with parts of mine," he whispers while his cock still twitches inside me.
K. Webster
#82. Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
Haruki Murakami
#83. Some people call this "staying in your comfort zone," but that's not a good name for it because the comfort zone is definitely not comfortable. It should be called the "misery zone" or the "missing-out-on-life zone." In
Russ Harris
#84. The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Stephen Hawking
#85. This is a real-life story, Owen," I said. "It's not a mystery novel." In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn't
John Irving
#86. The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
Valentina Tereshkova
#87. That's great," Katie said. "Actually, it's revolutionary. If you can work and be in love at the same time, you're the first woman I ever knew that could. Maybe you're the missing link, Amanda."
Maybe you ought to get a job for the 'Ladies Home Journal.' They like simplistic shit like that.
Ellen Gilchrist
#88. Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that we hope to find.
Terri Clark
#89. Love, like energy, never dies. You lose people only in the moment. But time is a long road that circles back. At some point the missing turns into love and returns.
M.J. Rose
#90. She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence.
Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body.
Simon Van Booy
#91. The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
Arthur Koestler
#92. Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.
Norman Maclean
#93. Newspapers routinely refer to the missing men as 'disappeared persons', and their waiting wives are the 'half-widows'.
Basharat Peer
#94. The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
David Eagleman
#95. I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.
Craig Johnson
#96. I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.
Michael Finkel
#97. But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
Paul Engle
#98. Round here, everybody's always talking about home,' said Balfour. 'Can't help but think that the pleasure's in the missing.
Eleanor Catton
#99. Sleep isn't a break from our lives. It's the missing third of the puzzle of what it means to be living.
Anonymous
#100. A blank space on a form, the missing page, a void, a hole in your knowledge of someone--it's still some real thing. It exists. You don't get to fill it in with whatever you want.
Barbara Kingsolver
