Quotes About Misses

Literalism is like giving a child a calculus book as a step stool to reach a washbasin. In so doing, much is lost that lies with the proper use of the book. Certainly children need step stools, but that particular use misses the true potential the book has to offer.

Like Cupid, your promiseswere just misses.

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses

One cannot make bargains for blissesOr catch them like fishes in netsAnd sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.

I've got a wife who never misses me. Her aim is perfect!

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.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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

Heaven's net is indeed vast.Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.

Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

Misses everything," Lila said, and gave the faintest smile. "It's like a joke. Like, there should be a Mister Everything somewhere.

The angry man shoots too often from the hip and misses his target or hits the wrong one, while a wrathful man proceeds without malice but with a thirst for justice.

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.

There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi.