Mess Quotes - Page 33

• Your path is not narrow... so you can't mess it up.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Path

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• Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Hands, Talent

  Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

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• The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Scandal, Facts, United Nations

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• When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

  Rick Yune

  Sports, Art, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Sound, Cleanliness, Ifs

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• It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

  Lawrence Jackson

  Stars, Fields, Steps

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• Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Tired, Science, Giving

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• Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Quilts, Love Is, Loving Life

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

  Robert Gibbs

  Jobs, Eight, Years

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

  Jimmy Page

  Teacher, School, Men

  "High Art, Low Blues". Interview with Brad Tolinski, www.guernicamag.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

  Larry Page

  Kind, Computer, Where You Are

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• Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home.

  Ross Parsley

  Home, Church, Visitors

  Ross Parsley (2012). “Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family”, p.19, David C Cook

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• I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Mom, Hair, High Heels

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• Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

  Greg Brown

  Sweet, Life Is, Melons

  "Rexroth's Daughter". Song by Greg Brown, 2000.

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• The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Cowboy, Order

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• I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L.Berman, 2000.

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• NOBODY messes with "The Bad Guy"!

  Scott Hall

  Wwe, Guy, Bad Guys

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• It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  Rudyard Kipling, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.43, GENERAL PRESS

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• You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Dresses, Stills, Looking Pretty

  Song: Homewrecker, Album: Electra Heart, 2012

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• No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Mean, Night

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• If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are.   Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are.   If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something!

  Taiichi Ohno

  People, Guy, Kaizen

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• Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up

  Archie Manning

  Wake Up, Littles, Sometimes

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• If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

  Ziggy Marley

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

  Kate Walsh

  House, Freak, Clean

  "A Conversation With Kate Walsh". Women's Health Magazine Interview with Caroline Ryder, November 2006.

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• I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

  David Morrissey

  Real, Heart, Creative

  "David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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