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If something is amiss, such as a rapid gain in weight overnight, the nurse contacts the patient immediately. Our goal is to help manage our patients` conditions so we can keep small things from becoming bigger ones with even more serious consequences.

- Anne Meara

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

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

- A. W. Tozer

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.

- Allard Baird

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?"

- Alle Fister

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.

- Allison Baker

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

- Andrew Shields

Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss

- Andrew Wicker

There is something amiss when that many doctors suddenly say, `We`re quitting your panel,`

- Arthur Cashin

Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In fact, I believe that this government effort is a fishing expedition that unnecessarily disrupts the normal business operations of resellers and the manufacturers that supply them. If the government thought something was really wrong, they wouldn`t have cast such a wide net to go hunting. I think this is a classic example of prosecutorial overreach.

- Asep Firmansyah