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Quotes About Missed

I took a break from theater after 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I'd been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.
~ Sarah Greene
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say;
~ Oscar Wilde
Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.
~ Oscar Wilde
The effect now was much the same as if I had been listening in to a dramatic sketch on the wireless. I got the voices, but I missed the play of expression. And I'd have given a lot to be able to see it. Not Jeeves's, of course, because Jeeves never has any.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Rachel tried to slap Mrs. Samuels when she said this, but she wasn't really sure where her face was and she missed, terribly.
~ Daniel Wallace
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.
~ Ann Beattie
Scrubbley because she'd missed the train to Hogwarts.
~ Chris d'Lacey
People joked that Zanna had only come to Scrubbley because she'd missed the train to Hogwarts. What
~ Chris d'Lacey
Rarely has a diplomatic document so missed its objective as the Treaty of Versailles. Too punitive for conciliation, too lenient to keep Germany from recovering
~ Henry Kissinger
Thare iz sich a thing az being alwus too quick--i am one ov that kind miself, i alwus miss a rale rode train bi being thare a haff an our too soon.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Only when Prince Andrei was gone did Rostov think of what he ought to have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He
~ Leo Tolstoy
Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked By the winds of change and the weeds of sex looks like freedom but it feels like death it's something in between, I guess it's closing time.
~ Leonard Cohen
How sweet time feels when it's too late
~ Leonard Cohen
Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?
~ Lev Grossman
If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his.
~ Lev Grossman
Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
~ James E. Faust
Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke...
~ Jasper Fforde
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. 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.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
Sidharth and me were supposed to work much before Bang Bang, we were in talks for a few films which didnt work out.
~ Katrina Kaif
My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
~ Danny Aiello
I hate the thought of someone never being missed,' said Ianto sadly. 'It's the ultimate humiliation, surely. So unimportant in life that no one even notices when you die.
~ Unknown
There's a medical term for it, actually. It's called Hugh Grantism. You spend so long faffing around trying to do the correct thing that the chance to do anything at all just slips you by.
~ Unknown
If you do that, she can ride on my back," Tsunami suggested. She missed having the little SandWing come lean against her trustingly.
~ Tui T. Sutherland