“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Never miss a chance… to keep your mouth shut.”
Source: A Day No Pigs Would Die
Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself
Source: After the Rain
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.”
Source: The Fortress of Solitude
“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”
Source: Sing You Home
Source: Lover Eternal
Variant: Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life.
Source: Something Borrowed
Variant: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
“Don't you miss the days when America was just morally bankrupt?”
But I'm Not Wrong (2010)
Source: Does Anybody Have a Problem With That? The Best of Politically Incorrect
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
Source: The Darkest Seduction
Source: Dark of Night
“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”
Source: The Year of Pleasures
“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.”
“Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.”
Source: Rush
Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
“Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue”
Source: Magic Strikes
Interview in O : The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)
Source: Saving Francesca
“The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving”
“As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.”
Source: Once Upon a Marigold
“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) <!-- cited either to "Comment" or as a comment, this may have been attributed to Frost at least as early as 1962-->
General sources
Context: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Variant: The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.
Source: I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing”
Source: A Mango-Shaped Space
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”
“Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?"
Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“Never miss a party… good for the nerves--like celery.”
Source: Gatsby Girls
“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”
Source: Calamity
“The only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”
Source: The Moon and More