Missing You Quotes - Page 4

• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Retirement, Work

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• But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Musical, Wish, Kind

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• I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Race, Air, Years

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• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Love, Cute, Valentines Day

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• What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Plato, Real, Thinking

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Memories, Desire

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• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wisdom, Children, Educational

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Next, Levels

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• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Drinking, Beer

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

  Brendan Fraser

  Running, War, Thinking

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

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• But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Achievement, Actors, Process

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• You do not know what you can miss before you try.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Missing, Trying, Knows

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• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ocean, Men, Mind

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• And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

  Michael Berryman

  War, Book, Needs

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• Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mistake, Fate, I Love New York

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• Love is space and time measured by the heart.

  Marcel Proust

  True Love, Best Love, Heart

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume V: The Captive". Book by Marcel Proust, 1923.

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• You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Giving Up, School, Thinking

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• When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Riding, Wave

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• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Distance, World Suffering, Losing Someone

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• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Games, Bob

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Playing Jazz, Scrabble

  1954 In Look, 10 Aug.

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• One kind kiss before we part,
  Drop a tear and bid adieu;
  Though we sever, my fond heart
  Till we meet shall pant for you.

  Robert Dodsley

  Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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