Bette Davis Quotes

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

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• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Up
  • Good
  • Guy

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Common

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Taken
  • New

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • Things Happen

• The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• I'm much more shy than most of my family.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Family
  • Most
  • Shy

• Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Down

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Computers

• Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Science
  • Political

• I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Creative

• You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Forward

• Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of learning philosophy. Philosophy is really more the process of rational engagement, rational reflection with a diversity of views and ideas and opinions and trying to sort of reason your way through to a more reflective position. I think if you look at it that way, philosophizing is to some extent some small way a part of almost everyone's lives although they don't recognize it as such and a lot of people are embarrassed about it.

  

  Dale Jamieson
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Philosophy

• To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Able
  • Easier
  • Luxury

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Happiness
  • Optimism

• You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Change
  • Happiness
  • Expect