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«If young love is just a game then i must have missed the kickoff»
Author: Blink 182 | About: Funny, Love | Keywords: Just a Game, kickoff, missed
«Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.»
«Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.»
Author: Gloria Naylor | About: Fathers | Keywords: daddies, daddy, missed
«Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.»
«I saw a star, I reached for it, and I missed. So I accepted the sky.»
«Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.»
«Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.»
«I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.»
«I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.»
«I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.»

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