#amiss

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

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#borrow #hard #i #later #light

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#applied #aptly #conversation #forever #hit

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