Michael J. Fox Quotes

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Michael J. Fox

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• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Unhappy

• You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • You
  • Years
  • Expect

• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Unhappy

• I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Expect

• My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Parent
  • Unhappy
  • Faithful

• Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Expect

• I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Advice
  • Expect

• The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Understand
  • Expect

• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Him

• I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Different
  • Things

• People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • May
  • True

• All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Running
  • Dark
  • Winning

• Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Expect
  • Embrace
  • Repeat

• What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Work
  • Art
  • Expect

• The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Expect
  • Truth Is
  • Opposite

• There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Hours
  • Harmony
  • Serene

• And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Traveler
  • Serene

• Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to do and find a way to do that as an adult for their jobs. A lot of people have jobs they don't like, and it makes for very unhappy people. So I tell them if you like to write, or run around, or dig in the dirt, then find a job that will allow you to do that, and you'll be happy.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Women are forced to pretend to be men. They're feigning this toughness. They're miserable. Study after study has shown that feminism has made women less happy. They're not happy in the work force, for the most part.

  

  Gavin McInnes
  • Force
  • Unhappy
  • Feminism

• One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • True
  • Girl
  • Sad

• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Today
  • Week
  • Tomorrow

• The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Manhood
  • Nursery

• The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

  

  Michael J. Fox
  • Expect
  • Unhappy
  • Serene