#missing

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#attention

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#longing #mathematics #missing #negative-numbers #mathematics

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#conclusion-before-evidence #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#missing #rosamund-lupton #sister #love

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#alive #anymore #few #forever #hate

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything. ↗

— Bobby Bonilla

#deal #get #great #great deal #here

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#condemn #divorce #gay #gay marriage #indifferent

One missing child is one too many. ↗

— John Walsh

#many #missing #too

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#compared #dad #dc #elements #halen

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#design #emotional #exact #eyebrows #give