Messy Quotes - Page 14

• But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.

  Sophie Hannah

  Love

  Sophie Hannah (2009). “Little Face: Culver Valley Crime”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

  Peter Dicken

  Believe, Reality, Theme

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.14, SAGE

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

  Tim Blake Nelson

  Life Is, Contradiction

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• Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

  Andrew Stanton

  Art, Needs, Chaos

  "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Ive gotten used to using individual lashes as well. A lot of girls will use strip eyelashes, but the glue comes out of each side and it gets messy. Individual lashes make your eyes look bigger and much more natural.

  Katherine Webb

  Girl, Eye, Glue

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• Really now, I just can't seem to die... Where's the messy end I was promised?

  Gangrel

  Ends, Dies, Seems

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• We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it's not always that way.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Two, Medicine

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

  Rick Riordan

  Family, Home, Trying

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.115, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.

  Nick Harkaway

  Retirement, Real, Love You

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.181, Random House

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• There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

  Tara Brach

  Saying Yes, Imperfect, Liberating

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• Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spirituality, Fixed, Mess

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

  Tori Spelling

  Silly, Home, Black And White

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• All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Fresh Start, Honest

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, Way, Speak

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Heart, Games

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• We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.

  Marsha Norman

  Starting Over, Get Better, Bed

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• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Confused, Inspiration

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• Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

  Harry Crews

  Real, Teaching, Ought

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• A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

  Hugh Prather

  Mud, Walk With Me, Walks

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam

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• When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.

  Jason Gray

  Real, Grace, Glimpse

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• To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

  Mark Hart

  Love, Forgiveness, Patience

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• People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Messiness

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• Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Success, Dream, Respect

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