"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
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"Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?"
"Don’t miss what the Lord has in store for those who love Him and are willing to let Him be the Master of their lives."
"The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now."
"If you think about shortages, you're going to attract more shortage! If you think about what's missing, you're going to attract more of what's missing in your life."
"Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result."
"Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does not bring him one ounce of sovereignty. God rules even when men imagine they are defying Him."
"Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?"
"The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message."
"In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last."
"Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past."
"A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty."
"There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that."
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
"Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it."
"I've taken Eco drink everyday for a year and I can tell you that it works!!!! I definitely can tell when I miss a day."
"A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog."
"LIFE IS JUST A SERIES OF MOMENTS.IF YOU MISS THE MOMENTS,YOU MISS YOUR LIFE"
"If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home."
"I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now."