Mess Quotes - Page 12

• A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.

  Boyd Norton

  Exercise, Weather, Black

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• I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

  Erin Brockovich

  Government, Clean, Nations

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• Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

  Willis Regier

  Wade, Swamps, Scripture

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

  Andy Stanley

  Happy Endings, Problem, Plans

  Andy Stanley, Heath Bennett (2010). “Up to You: It's Your Life, Choose Wisely”, p.11, Multnomah

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• Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

  Mark Steel

  People, Puddles, Fetch

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• Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mistake, Fall, Unique

  "Lemons as Gifts, Viruses for Good, Failure for Success and College Graduation: A Well-Intended Tale" by Sydney Small, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life Changing, Thinking, Things In Life

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• I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

  Lino Rulli

  Hate, Leaving, Would Be

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

  Conor McPherson

  Responsibility, Thinking About You, People

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. Posted on.

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• My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

  Steven Weinberg

  Advice, Action

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• We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Justice, National Security, Birthright

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.143, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Anytime I mess up, even if it's a simple turnover, that affects me.

  Seimone Augustus

  Simple, Turnover, Ifs

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• C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

  Brian Kernighan

  Tools, Razors, Program

  Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1999). “The Practice of Programming”, p.71, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

  William Saroyan

  War, Writing, World

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• If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

  Bernie Mac

  Self, Blame, Remember

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• It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mom, Dad, Smart

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• Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Glory

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2015

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• In almost any situation, it is far more devastating to keep your icy cool while the other person gets herself in a flush-cheeked, teary-eyed hot mess yelling in your face.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Yelling, Hot, Icy

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• I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

  Violante Placido

  Song, Crazy, Mistake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Community, Looks

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• Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.

  Greta Gerwig

  Cute, Mistake, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love.

  Nina Jacobson

  Ideas, Fans, Different

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.

  Matt Blaze

  Insecure, Numbers, Records

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kids, Romance, Feelings

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.38, Macmillan

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