Norton Juster Quotes

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

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• I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Live
  • Future
  • Control

• I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

  

  Kajol
  • World
  • Work
  • House

• I've always watched the political shows.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Political
  • Always
  • Shows

• Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Energy
  • Pay
  • Gray

• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Way
  • You
  • Yourself

• When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Father
  • Thank God

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Work
  • Win
  • Work Hard

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • America
  • Honor

• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Popular

• There's just no quiet in Vegas.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Just
  • Quiet
  • Vegas

• I've been a fan for a long time, and it's a reason I wanted to be a part of it. Now I'm able to do the 'Robotech' movie, and it's something I grew up watching. To actually be on 'Robotech' was really an experience.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Hey,” Shane said from the other side of the bars. “Trade you cigarettes for a chocolate bar.” Funny,” Eve said. She was almost back to her old unGothed self again, though there were still red splotches on her cheeks and around her eyes. “How come you’re always behind bars, troublemaker?” Look who’s talking. I didn’t try to outrun the cops in a hearse.” That hearse had horsepower.” Eve got that moony look in her eyes again. “I love that hearse.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Funny
  • Eyes

• There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

  

  Scott Derrickson
  • Cinema
  • Supernatural

• Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Character

• When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Expectations
  • Have

• I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

  

  George Washington
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Mean

• Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Expectations
  • Unexpected