Jane Austen Quotes
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
Fay Godwin
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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
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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
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Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.
J. J. Watt
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I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.
Baba Kalyani
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
Stevie Wonder
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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
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Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!
Allen Tate
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Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.
Lea Salonga
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.
Napoleon Hill
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Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.
Marianne Williamson
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What else do you expect from a Toledo Rocket?
Chris Wallace
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You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.
Jack Roy
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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
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It is where we can expect to have problems in the coming days, ... Those are the hardest parts, the more complicated parts.
Javier Solana
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Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln
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I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social media, people are like, 'Thank you for your positive posts,' or 'It's fun to see you grow and your character. I feel like I'm growing with you.'
Taylour Paige
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
Tatum O'Neal
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Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.
Sandra Cisneros
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The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.
Bernie Krause
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen