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«Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.»
«It will be like some sort of painting with huge chunks missing.»
Author: Joseph Papp | Keywords: chunk, chunks, huge, missing
«Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.»
«Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.»
«Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing»
«Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Cheating, Trust | Keywords: cheating, missing
«There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.»
«I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot . . . when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.»
«Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.»
«Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.»

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