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'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

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

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Expect
  • Truth Is
  • Opposite

• People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • People
  • Happy
  • Unhappy

• My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Reason
  • Unhappy
  • Ridiculous

• We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

  

  Aaron John Boone
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Pretty

• And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Leader
  • Enthusiasm
  • Register

• The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Silence
  • Humility
  • Statement

• 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