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

• 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

• 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

• I am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up Back coupes up & chunk the deuce up

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Bragging
  • Flirty

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Purpose

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • May
  • Beginning

• I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • People
  • Book
  • Personality

• 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