Top 1200 Missed Chances Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.
I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
I could've missed the pain, but I would've missed the dance. — © Garth Brooks
I could've missed the pain, but I would've missed the dance.
I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.
...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.
I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
I'm old enough to remember the days when you actually missed your favourite programme. Missed it. And cried. Possibly because you were a child, but not always.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.
I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.
Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.
Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through
Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it’s a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decide
Bad chances were better than no chances. — © Stephen King
Bad chances were better than no chances.
I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.
If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.
I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.
I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It's okay, cuz I'm playing catch-up on everything now.
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking 'I should have done this.' Scoring goals was all I thought about.
You will not create a lot of chances in every game, but if you stop the opponent getting chances, you will win more.
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.
I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.
I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.
Oh, China. How I have missed you.' 'And I have missed you, Eliza. But don't worry, next time my aim will be better.
I missed you all my life,” Kylie said. “I didn’t know I missed you, but I know it now. You were supposed to be there.
I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.
The chances of you winning are the same as the chances of HELL freezing over.
As for whether what happened in Britain improves[Donald] Trump's chances of winning, I don't think so. He has the same chances; we may just be more aware of what they are now.
A top striker like Harry Kane turns half chances into full chances by scoring them. — © Ivan Toney
A top striker like Harry Kane turns half chances into full chances by scoring them.
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.
I love first chances, but unfortunately, first chances don't always work out for everyone, and I'm a perfect example of that.
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
I know I have missed some chances, but that's part of being a striker, and I know it's part of being a striker that when you don't score, people talk about it.
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.
However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string. — © George Eliot
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds.
I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.
That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
When we grew up, we had three channels on television and only one day of cartoons and if you missed it, you missed it.
I have a number of projects that I've been dreaming of making ever since I was a child. But I am also very open to the chances of life and the chances of my profession.
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