QUOTATION: Now wait a minute. You listen to me. I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex- wives, and several bartenders dependent on me. And I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed.
ATTRIBUTION: Ernest Lehman (b.1920), U.S. screenwriter. Alfred Hitchcock. Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), North by Northwest, Thornhill protests when the Professor (Leo G. Carroll) asks him to continue posing as the fictitious George Kaplan. (1959).
QUOTATION: The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bring usually makes us more adaptable. Some changes threaten, or disappoint other members, who may try to resist the change, or punish someone for changing.
ATTRIBUTION: Terri Apter (20th century), British psychologist. Altered Loves, ch. 4 (1990).
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Bernard Bailey
The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." -Bill Cosby
Quote: Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Author: Harvey Mackay
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Charles M. Schulz
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
Charles M. Schulz
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy)
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown
- More quotations on: [Worries]
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stay awake just to watch you sleep.
Wait for the guy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends.
Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you.
Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, ...that's her.
There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Douglas Adams
"For better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt, 1899
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - From Illusions by Richard Bach
"When the chips are down, and you're at the end of your rope, you need someone that you can count on. And that's what you'll find here... someone that will go all the way, no matter what. So don't lose hope. Come on over to our offices and you'll see that there's still heroes in this world. ... Is that it? Am I done?" --Allen Francis Doyle, from Angel—
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." --Sherlock Holmes--
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." --Frank Lloyd Wright--
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." --Aldous Huxley--
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --Martin Luther King Jr.--
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." --Jimi Hendrix--
"You must feel fear in your whole body right now and how powerless you are. Become strong. Crying over reality won't change anything. You understand don't you? Dying is not an easy thing to do." --Cho Hakkai, from Saiyuki--
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." --Flannery O'Connor--
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth." --Will Rogers--
"There's a time and a place for everything and I believe it's called fanfiction." --Joss Whedon--
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." --Winston Churchill--
"When the universe collapses and dies, there will be three survivors: Tyr Anasazi, the cockroaches, and Dylan Hunt trying to save the cockroaches." --Tyr Anasazi, from Andromeda--
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." --Robin Williams--
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." --James Dean--
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." --W.B. Prescott--
"Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise." --Will Riker, from TNG--
"The writer's mind, when it works, is like Alice's rabbit, leading quickly, almost recklessly, to mysterious, yet attractive, places." --Roger Rosenblatt--
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." --Ross MacDonald--
"You were working for her, Seska was working for them, was anyone on that ship working for me?" --Chakotay, from Voyager--
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." --Mark Twain--
"I prefer to follow the uncomplicated advice of Jiminy Cricket who said, 'Let your conscience be your guide.'" --Willard Scott--
"Lying is a skill like any other, and if you want to maintain a level of excellence, you have to practice constantly." --Elim Garak, from DS9--
"Reality is something you rise above." --Liza Minnelli--
"Computers can sense fear." --Abby Scuito, from Navy NCIS--
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." --Aldous Huxley--
"Life is precious, whether it's one or many." --Albert--
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." --Groucho Marx--
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." --John F. Kennedy--
"Laws change depending on who's making them, but justice is justice." --Odo, from DS9--
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." --Walt Disney--
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." --Scott Adams--
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." --Tom Clancy--
"You know, if you think sort of sideways, sometimes you can actually figure out how to make things work." --Neil Gaiman--
"Nine times out of ten a hero is someone who is tired enough, cold enough, and hungry enough not to give a damn. I don't give a damn!" --Hawkeye Pierce, from M*A*S*H--
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." --Woody Allen--
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." --Nicholas Copernicus--
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." --Oscar Wilde--
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." --Napoleon Bonaparte--
"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." --Charlotte Whitton--
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein--
"Oh, well, let's see: killed Simon and River, stole a bunch of medicine, and now the captain and Zoe are off springing the others got snatched by the Feds. Oh, and here they are now." --Kaylee Frye, from Firefly--
"If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet your ancestor, kill your ancestor. Attached to nothing, bound by nothing. Live life for the sake of life itself." --Genjo Sanzo, from Saiyuki--
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau--
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." --Unknown--
"Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die." --Robert Hepburn--
"There's no rest for the wicked, and the righteous don't need any." --Faye Bradford--
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