Mess Quotes - Page 36

• People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon

  Molly McAdams

  Mistake, Second Chance, People

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• The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

  William Shenstone

  Sympathy, Coffee, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

  Muriel Spark

  Art, Trying, Patterns

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.59, Canongate Books

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• The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

  Nora Ephron

  Girl, Believe, School

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• I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Ignorant, World

  Shirley MacLaine (1987). “It's all in the playing”, Bantam

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• And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

  Deacon Jones

  Thinking, Nfl, Blame

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• I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

  Aristophanes

  Food, Home, Vegetables

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press

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• I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is most folk really don’t have choices.

  Dick Gregory

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  TheSource.com Interview, thesource.com. January 16, 2012.

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• Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Heart, People, Cleaning

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.190, Northwestern University Press

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• I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Attitude, Mind, Special

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• The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Art, Creativity, Dedication

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• Mess with nature and it will mess right back.

  Anita Roddick

  Nature

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• I have been styling my own hair since I was four years old ... and I still don't let anyone else touch it to this day. I cut, color, style, and spray my own hair, on all sets and shoots, that's just the way it goes. I get way too nervous when someone else starts to mess with it.

  Jenna Elfman

  Cutting, Hair, Color

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• There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

  Sue Grafton

  Sue Grafton (2010). “I is for Innocent”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

  Jack London

  Nice, Past, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

  Hank Green

  Fun, Lying, Thinking

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• Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

  Brad Warner

  Brain, Bliss, Moments

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

  Lisa Unger

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.723, Crown

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• My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

  Dennis Cooper

  Writing, Editing, Long

  "Go Forth (Vol.19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.

  David Gordon Green

  Kids, Animal, Directors

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Stuff, Needs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.

  Joan Frank

  Coffee, Eye, Night

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• If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

  Jo Coudert

  Revenge, Long, Risk

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.265, iUniverse

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• My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.

  Donna Ball

  War, Men, Wife

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