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"Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big. We can never kill him." David looked at the same giant and thought, "He is so big. I can't miss.""
"Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!"
"Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things!"
"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves."
"If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them."
"A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something."
"If you make it, great. If you miss it - what's there to be afraid of?"
"If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost."
"Also, I would cry at the words 'I miss you' after I left my family"
"I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me."
"That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all."
"When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me."
"Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment."
"The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it."
"We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter."
"Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living."
"I dreamt I was forced to eat 25lb of marshmallows. When I woke up, my pillow was missing."
"God showed me that He could and would replace everything that was missing in my life, but that nothing could replace Him in my life."
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
"I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal."
