#amiss

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#anything #been #conscience #country #direction

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. ↗

— George Crabbe

#better #love #loved #nothing #than

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#amiss #anyhow #days #eight #else

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. ↗

— William Congreve

#amiss #disdain #little #scorn

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#ballad #go #once #while

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

#defying #denying #dying #faith #heart

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cannot #engines #fire #house #little

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#eating #i #incorrect #keeps #me

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#amiss #few #gone #how #improve

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?" ↗

— Josiah Strong

#america #amiss #any #beyond #central