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Quotes About Misses

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
Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.
~ Nick Clegg
What people want on a Sunday morning is not to be in the breaking news fray. They want someone to call hits and misses, and to bring context and perspective and to be even-handed.
~ Margaret Brennan
Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
~ John Mica
I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.
~ Bret Michaels
You see far more swings and misses on can't-miss football recruits than basketball blue chips.
~ Skip Bayless
One cannot make bargains for blisses Or catch them like fishes in nets And sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.
~ Alice Carey
Tall pitchers create leverage and angle, often inducing more groundballs and sometimes swings and misses.
~ Gabe Kapler
But there is a destiny which shapes the ends of young misses who are born with the itch for writing tingling in their baby fingertips, and in the fullness of time this destiny gave to Emily the desire of her heart—gave
~ L.M. Montgomery
Creativity is a consequence of sheer productivity. If a creator wants to increase the production of hits, he or she must do it by risking a parallel increase in the production of misses. . . . The most successful creators tend to be those with the most failures!3 —Dean Keith Simonton, researcher, summarizing academic studies on individual creativity
~ Robert I. Sutton
The round hit the guy high on the back, dead center, at the base of the neck. A spine shot. Lucky. Reacher had been aiming lower, at center mass. The biggest part of the target. Always safest. With an in-built advantage. Center meant center. There was stuff on the edges, side to side, and especially up and down. The legs and the head. Misses had somewhere to go.
~ Lee Child
baseball is really the game that tells you what life is going to be: fastballs, errors, wild pitching, clutch hits, strike-outs, not getting to first base, things coming in from left field. Near misses. And that's just the romance part.
~ Lorrie Moore
But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different—that courage is in some sense acquired.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it.
~ John Locke
She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
~ Larry Drake
Most of the time a wrestler misses the in-ring action, but because of my back and working with the girls as an agent, I don't miss it.
~ Gail Kim
I Want To Be Known For My Hits, Not Just My Misses.
~ Fall Out Boy
Well, if you're a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?
~ Bob Newhart
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
~ Francis Bacon
He that seeks trouble never misses.
~ French proverb
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, and they don't remember those for very long.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In the end, we are collected works. 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, and they don't remember those for very long. No
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. 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, and they don't remember those for very long.
~ Gabrielle Zevin