Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

Agnes Martin

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Charlotte Bronte

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

Charlotte Bronte

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Richard G. Scott

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

Anne Rice

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

Christopher Moore

Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

Joe Biden

The Turks ... the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing?

Lynda Barry

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

Rainn Wilson

This is one doodle that can't be undid homeskillet.

Gustave Flaubert

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.

Tommy Wiseau

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.

Tommy Wiseau

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Ben Bernanke

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Bobby Robson

Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

Barbara Mertz

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Action Bronson

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

Christoph Eibl

There is some classic, typical profit-taking going on.

Maisie Williams

Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.

Tim Banner

He was just typical Josh. There are things he could have done better, but he was all right.

Dick Van Patten

My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.