Replenishing Petty Quotes & Sayings

Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected — Pen

The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the work ... People criticize a picture by their ear — Okakura Kakuzo

Well, we spent enough on gymnastics.'
'Christ, did we,' said Maureen. 'So many lessons.'
So many lessons, it was true: art and music and ice-skating; Lily's every fleeting interest enthusiastically, abundantly indulged. Not to mention the many more practical investments
chemistry tutoring when she struggled, English enrichment when she excelled, SAT courses to propel her to the school and then, presumably, the career of her dreams. What costs had been sunk, what objections had been suppressed, to deliver their daughter into the open and waiting arms of her beautiful life. — Jennifer DuBois

Richard Dawkins lamented,9 we think that our kids need to have "fun, fun, fun" rather than, say, experience wonder or interest (they are not the same thing) when going to school or a museum. — Massimo Pigliucci

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother. — Charley Pride

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is there in every important relationship in our lives: with parents, siblings, lovers, our closest friends. I have always wanted to be faithful to that truth. — Christos Tsiolkas

A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition. — George Eliot

Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans. — Thom Yorke

The '90s will be looked back on as ushering in an era of comfort. — Michael Kors

At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it. — Ted Cruz

Roic said nothing, firmly. — Lois McMaster Bujold

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me — Karen Marie Moning

The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world. — Alexis M. Smith

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). — Daniel Dennett