Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Levithan

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

Jodi Picoult

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

Jane Wagner

Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

Robert Anthony

Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Randy Pausch

If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

Cecelia Ahern

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

Bette Davis

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Anton Corbijn

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

Bill Bryson

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

Bobby Julich

That won't happen again. You can maybe disappoint Lance once, but it's better not to disappoint him twice.

B. F. Skinner

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

Bob Holthus

I think everybody in the grandstand wished me luck. I was glad he was able to uphold his standing and didn't disappoint anybody.

Pat Alexander

He leads by example, and you don't want to disappoint him.