#missed

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#away #cloudy #day #days #having

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#confluence #extraordinary #feel #global #i

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #dressed #like #looks #missed

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#away #back #being #competitive #considered

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#finding #good #i #kind #lot

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#considered #dangerous #fellow #good #hills

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#eighties #feel #fun #having #having fun

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#boat #career #cd #doing #every