Mess Quotes

• God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

  Max Lucado

  Grace, Answers, Poor Choices

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2014

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• If it is not a mess, it is not progress.

  Robin Sharma

  Progress, Ifs

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• If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

  Drew Carey

  Miracle, Frogs, Neat

  "The Drew Carey Show". www.imdb.com. 1995 - 2004.

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• I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Character, Shy, Stills

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• If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Hopeful, Humanity

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

  Max Lucado

  Years, Choices, Grace

  Max Lucado (2014). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

  Anne Lamott

  Life Is, Perfectionism, Clutter

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Revenge, Mean

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• Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Success, Failure, Entrepreneur

  Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3

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• If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

  Crazy Legs

  Motivational, Dance, Practice

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• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Trust, Real Friends

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

  Criss Jami

  Easy, Clean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.12, Criss Jami

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• The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

  Tracey Emin

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

  Julie Bowen

  Expression, Enemy, Trying

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• People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

  Johnny Galecki

  Beautiful, Two, People

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• Make a mess. Clean it up.

  Keri Smith

  Clean

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• God can make greatness out of a great mess

  Joel Osteen

  Greatness

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• If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Clean up your own mess.

  Robert Fulghum

  Cleaning, Clean

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

  Garry Winogrand

  Trying, World, Neat

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• Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Socialist Government, People

  "This Week" with Llew Gardner, www.margaretthatcher.org. February 5, 1976.

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• Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

  Athol Fugard

  People, Fool, Life Is

  Athol Fugard (2000). “Port Elizabeth Plays”, p.27, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sexy, Crazy, Mistake

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