Quotes & Sayings About Expectations Leading To Disappointments

There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen. — Atul Gawande

I'm not a lesbian, but my girlfriend is. — Gina Gershon

It is all I can do not to confide to the girl closest to me: "If I should die during tea - asphyxiated by my own corset - please do not let them bury me in such a hideous dress or I shall come back to haunt you. — Libba Bray

Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker!

Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a lot of dick on the goddamn menu! Now grunt twice for yes! You through bitchin'? — Garth Ennis

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again. — Publilius Syrus

The smaller you are, the more bravery means. — Patrick Rothfuss

Idealists , workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine , of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone. — Bill Ayers

I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines. — Jane Elliot

In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love
a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal
masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject. — Edward Hirsch

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. — Susan Sontag

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others. — Randal Marlin

He begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious life. — Erich Maria Remarque