Missing Quotes - Page 26

• I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Would Be, Minutes, Happens

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• I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

  Regina King

  Children, Choices, Directors

  "Regina King’s Primetime". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 13, 2015.

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• The only part I miss about driving is driving. That's it. I don't miss all the other stuff that goes along with it, all the other PR stuff. Anybody, when they quit driving, they miss the driving part.

  Kyle Petty

  Stuff, Driving, Quitting

  "A CSJ Conversation with Kyle Petty". Interview with Chad Bonham, christiansportsjournal.com. January 16, 2017.

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• We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

  Barbara Jordan

  Children, School, Order

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• I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

  Gabriela Isler

  Exercise, Abdominals, Muscles

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• I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of daily criticism from working at Fox News and being a former Miss America. I'm ready for anything!

  Gretchen Carlson

  Practice, Careers, America

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Couple, Outcomes, Affair

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• Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.

  Noma Bar

  Country, Religious, Israel

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• The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  War, Rights, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Rocks, Community

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1971). “The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.”, William Morrow & Co

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• If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?

  Tom Robbins

  Jesus, Years, Ifs

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• Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

  Michael Crichton

  Party, Differences, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

  Frank Herbert

  Observing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.50, Penguin

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• The only shot I ALWAYS miss, is the one I don't take!

  Wayne Gretzky

  Shots

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• There was always something missing in Montreal.

  Pedro Martinez

  Montreal, Schindler's List

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• I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.

  Chris Paul

  Distance, Long, Lines

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• If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Father, Married, Understood

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

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• I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.

  Matt Holliday

  College, Bigs, Concerned

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• Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore. It just comes natural.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Thinking, Gone, Sometimes

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• I miss basketball every now and then.

  Derrek Lee

  Basketball, Now And Then

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• The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.

  Thomas Vanek

  Fun, Nhl, Games

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• Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Joy, Might, Way

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• We moved around a lot at first as a kid, and then I was on the road at 17, and new in town by the time I got to LA, and then famous again with that whirlwind. I did really want substance in my life, and when I stopped with the road for my children, it was really because I didn't want to miss out. It wasn't just selflessness. I didn't want to miss out on that.

  Lynda Carter

  Children, Kids, Substance

  "Lynda Carter Has a Secret Identity (And It Isn’t Diana Prince!)". Interview with Brent Hartinger, www.newnownext.com. June 3, 2009.

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• When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Life Is Good, America

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• Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Drug, Hours

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