Mess Quotes - Page 25

• Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.]

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Science, Order, Iowa

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mom, Want, One Thing

  "Jennifer Lopez Calls Motherhood Her Most Important Gig" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Gone, Awful

  Quoted in Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett (1978)

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• Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Intelligence, Mind

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• This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Meaningful, Regret, Mistake

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• You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Children, Parenting

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will be that as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

  Desmond Morris

  Strong, Office, World

  Desmond Morris (1967). “The Naked Ape”

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• We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very, very, very many smiles. We have all the tools not to be fools but still sometimes we mess up. But it's all right. If one thing doesn't work another will work-we have the technology and methodology to become and be good, graceful, courageous, pure human beings. We are all on the same path. Nobody is slave to anybody and nobody is subject to anybody. We worship no man but we love every man.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Song, Technology, Men

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• I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.

  Angela Kinsey

  Daughter, Mother, Fun

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• I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Mother, Memories, School

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• Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Brother, Selfish, Real

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• Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

  Breaker Morant

  Wisdom, Military, Australia

  Quoted in Bill Hornadge, The Australian Slanguage (1980)

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• Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because we have been through all this before. The "surge" of several years ago was supposed to provide space and time for Iraqi political interests to work out their differences. 30,000 additional U.S. troops failed to lead to any working out of those differences, and the outcome is the mess we see today.

  Paul R. Pillar

  Military, Years, Iraq

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• You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you'll be in danger too.

  Fabian

  Drama, Believe, Kids

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• As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Awful, Size, Cleaning

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• But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Tin, Lines

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• Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.

  James Lee Burke

  Art, Reading, Games

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• This is a good look. I'm gonna mess him up," Pattinson praises Stewart. "And I'm just like, I don't know what's going on? Where am I? I just walked out of a flower bed in this scene as well.... I was standing in the flower bed and then walked out of it and then stopped and looked confused.... If I didn't have contact lenses on, that was a really spectacular look I just did.... I should have had million thoughts, like Hamlet.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Confused, Flower

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• I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you're young because you're probably going to mess it up.

  Robert Pattinson

  Romance, Scary, Soul

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• If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Music, Summer, Order

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Judging, Gentleman, Desire

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• You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

  Muhammad Ali

  Baby, Kids, Boxing

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.364, Graymalkin Media

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