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  • In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

  • Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

    Regret   Believe   Long  
    "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.
  • In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

    Mean   Hands   Order  
    "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.
  • It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

    Depressing   Real   War  
  • I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.

  • I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.'

    Couple   Kids   Divorce  
  • What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?

    "Richard Dawkins: I Can't Be Sure God Does Not Exist". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 24, 2012.
  • Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.

    Fun   Dad   People  
    Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.190, Algonquin Books
  • But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.

    Love   Messy  
    Sophie Hannah (2009). “Little Face: Culver Valley Crime”, p.328, Hachette UK
  • If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

    Art   Sex   Giving Up  
  • In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

    Reality   Men   Murder  
  • Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

    Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.330, A&C Black
  • I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

    Jobs   Gaps   Rooms  
    Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.25, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

    Couple   Book   Feelings  
    Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.134, Zebra Books
  • No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

    Should   Messy   Position  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

    Leadership   Money   War  
  • It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

    Trying   Rooms   Break  
  • Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.

    Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
  • Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

    Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

    Fall   Home   Opportunity  
  • The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a complicated and messy evolution of ideas and spirits, coming together after a long, hard struggle to triumph in moments when the odds seemed the longest.

    Struggle   Ideas   Odds  
    Source: www.hbook.com
  • Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

  • This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

  • The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

    Needs   World   Noise  
  • Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

    Political   Care   Messy  
  • I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

    Dream   Brother   Boys  
  • The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

    Girl   Littles   Messy  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.31, Macmillan
  • Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.

  • Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

    Vinita Hampton Wright (2010). “Simple Acts of Moving Forward”, p.30, Loyola Press
  • I don’t like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you. This is uncharted territory for me, but I need to know that at the end of the night, I have you to come home to.

    Love You   Home   Night  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.830, Simon and Schuster
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