Anne Fleming Quotes

We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.

Anne Fleming

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• Families
• Tense

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• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Disappointment

• I don't believe in happy families.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Families

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Country
  • Career

• Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Reality
  • Celebrity
  • Disappointment

• First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • Marriage
  • Disappointment

• I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Religious
  • Disappointment

• I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.

  

  Dara Horn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hope

• There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Soul
  • Failure
  • Disappointment

• The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Disappointment

• I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

  

  Angie Stone
  • Up
  • Disappointment

• I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • People
  • Guy
  • Party

• We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

  

  LZ Granderson
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Kids
  • Career

• There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

  

  John Newton
  • World
  • God
  • Faith

• I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Important
  • Children
  • Parents

• But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

  

  R. J. Anderson
  • Courage
  • Disappointment

• Love Loud isn't just for the youth, but also their families and friends. They can attend and become educated on how to truly love and accept our LGBTQ youth.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Friends
  • Youth
  • Families

• Our families and friends all understand what we're going through. We try to have time for everything and everyone, but sometimes that's just impossible. With our success comes a lot of extra responsibility, and we have to be prepared to make sacrifices for the band. Right now Def Leppard comes before anything else; that's the way it has to be, whether we like it or not. We're all like brothers in this band, and we owe each other the time and effort required to keep us on top.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Friends
  • Responsibility
  • Band

• Fall in love with the work you do - that is the best way to make everything last.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Work
  • Fall

• We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.

  

  Anne Fleming
  • Disappointment
  • Families
  • Tense