Joseph Heller Quotes

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Joseph Heller

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• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Political

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  

  Florence King
  • Always
  • Nothing
  • Say

• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • Art
  • Effort

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • World
  • Strong
  • Opportunities

• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Forget
  • First
  • Lose

• I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Me
  • Sexy

• Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • Father
  • Best

• I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

  

  E. L. James
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Nice

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• A photograph can express silence.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Silence

• The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was - it changed the game for me.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Life
  • Game

• I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Envy

• Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Bad
  • Luck

• Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

  

  Karren Brady
  • Media
  • Soccer
  • Footballer

• Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Simple
  • Destiny
  • Luck