Mess Quotes - Page 24

• Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Rose, Life Is, Being Human

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.254, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

  Steven Erikson

  Dear God, Dear, Mortals

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• Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Memories, Thinking

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• I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Tired, World, Weight

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.210, Penguin

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• That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.

  Patricia Briggs

  Realizing, Freaky, Happened

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• wait," I said. "so you're saying that you proposed to me because I'm a mess and I'm a person and because we need each other, while Rebecca was —— something else? I get it, I follow you, but I'm also thinking, is the bullshit getting a little deep in here?" "Yes, it is. You've caught me. And so fine, I will come clean, and I will tell you the absolutely true and naked reason why I want to marry you and only you, and not Rebecca." "Why?" "Because when I'm with you, I'm the pretty one.

  Paul Rudnick

  Thinking, Bullshit, Waiting

  Paul Rudnick (2013). “Gorgeous”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

  Richard Matheson

  Would Be, World, Ifs

  Richard Matheson (2013). “A Stir of Echoes”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our parents for you. We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours. We snuffle up the crumbs from your table on the rare occasions you notice we're alive.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Parent, Little Sister

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• Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.

  Sarah Dessen

  Islands, Hands, Hug

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.95, Penguin

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• You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess.

  Julie James

  Envy, Littles, Not Afraid

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.79, Penguin

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• I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

  Gayle Forman

  Deals, Mines, Where She Went

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.37, Penguin

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• I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

  Ian Doescher

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Firsts

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• You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

  Max Lucado

  Despair, Use, Helping

  Max Lucado (2013). “You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!

  Veronica Roth

  Cities, Thrones, Sitting

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.11, HarperCollins

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• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Order, History, Historical

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• If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

  Fats Waller

  Music, Jazz, Fats

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• Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greed, Promise, Fuel

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• The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

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• It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

  Colman McCarthy

  Moving, Ocean, Caring

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• He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

  Grant Fuhr

  Running, Hockey, Nhl

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• We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ghetto

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Mother, Jobs

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• Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

  John Keats

  Book, Wine, Doors

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• I've never gotten too high or too low. It only messes you up.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Lows

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• Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Paper, Toilets

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