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Quotes About Missed

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
~ Andy Rooney
We have work to do. Plans to make. Magyk to mend. Together." Septimus blinked a sudden blurriness from his eyes. "I've missed you," he said. "Well, I'm sure you'll soon get fed up with me," Marcia retorted, finding that her eyes had gone a little fuzzy too.
~ Angie Sage
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.
~ Anita Shreve
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
~ Wavy Gravy
My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.
~ Emilio Estevez
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
~ Nouriel Roubini
I failed myself when I ruined a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Robert Griffin III's running mate during his Heisman Trophy-winning season at Baylor.
~ Josh Gordon
I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
~ Adriana Lima
I would love to work with anybody who has a good story to tell - Patrick Graham, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan, Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson. I don't know why I was not considered for that Indian guy's part in 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.'
~ Jim Sarbh
Well, at least now you admit you did it on purpose." "A target that small, it had to be on purpose or I would have missed." Nolasco dropped the smirk. "You won't last six months in burglary." "I agree," she said. "I told you six years ago. I intend to take your job." THE END
~ Robert Dugoni
He thought of all the times he could have visited, and hadn't. All those missed opportunities to call. All those times he'd forgotten her birthday.
~ Robert Galbraith
We are wistful about the Golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were asked what in life they really missed, the answer would be primal danger and stress.
~ Robert Grudin
Vampies" I said carefully. "Sure. It all fitts," Massha nodded. "The plae skin, the sharp fangs, the red eyeliner, the way they turn into bats." "Turned into bats?" "You missed that Boss" Guido suplloed.
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
If you can comprehend the simplicity, your life will have a plan and be financially easy. It is simple. That is why the idea is missed.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The firelight had restored his face to healthy color and she, all Frenchbraided, scarf unslung, resembled an opportunity missed by Rembrandt.
~ Leif Enger
The ways we miss our lives are life.
~ Randall Jarrell
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.
~ Roger Ebert
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
~ Nelson Mandela
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
~ Robert Breault
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.
~ John Cale
Apparently, they missed the second day of Chemistry 101—the day they teach 'covalent' bonds. When
~ Jim Marrs
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Oh, quantos espetáculos perdi, quantas vezes o pano ergueu-se e caiu sem mim. Quantos de meus amigos nunca encontrei uma só vez em toda a minha vida, (...)
~ Anna Akhmatova