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"[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself."
"You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it."
"No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork."
"I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one."
"Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology."
"I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth."
"Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely."
"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
"One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low."
"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."
"Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing."
"I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself."
"There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it."
"I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?"
"But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified."
"You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far."
"Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek."
"As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance."
"I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place."
"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
