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

• In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• 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 learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Happy

• 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

• I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Unhappy

• 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

• Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate – love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Love
  • Calm
  • Serene

• I firmly believe that if you're really unhappy with something, then you should go ahead and change it.

  

  Whitney Port
  • Change
  • Something
  • Unhappy

• In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • President
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Movie
  • Proud

• If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Heart
  • Path

• 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