Hooped Petticoat Quotes & Sayings

If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court. — Daphne Oz

In Moonlight
No
Soft sweet paw on my cheek
No
Fur curled under my chin
Just
A sad space left behind -
Gray cat gone away.

[Ellie's poem] — Patricia MacLachlan

Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet. — Jaci Burton

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete. — David Wright

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. — Ruth Hubbard

We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin. — Lydia Millet

I wish I'd drunk more champagne. — John Maynard Keynes

I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one. — Jay Bell

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'. — Catherine DeVrye

The Ego hungers for wholeness so, we want to own our lover as opposed to understanding, we need to become identified with their traits.-Author Serena Jade — Serena Jade

Being funny is everything to me. — Allison Jones

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel. — Rachel Kushner

In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw