Aidan Chambers Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Missing Quotes

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Lying Quotes , Missing Quotes

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Missing Quotes

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Father Quotes , Missing Quotes

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , People Quotes , Missing Quotes

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Failure Quotes , Missing Quotes

We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Missing Quotes , World Quotes

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Missing Quotes , Sound Quotes

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Goal Quotes , Missing Quotes

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Deserving It Quotes , Missing Quotes

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Missing Quotes

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Stars Quotes , Missing Quotes

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Grieving Quotes , Missing Quotes

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Missing Quotes

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Missing Quotes , Taste Quotes

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

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Tags : Abe Lemons Quotes , Missing Quotes , Damn Quotes

If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Heart Quotes , Missing Quotes