High Hopes Low Expectations Quotes

#1. I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Armistead Maupin

#2. I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.

Gordon Lish

#3. Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

Peter Senge

#4. Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Paul Samuelson

#5. Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast ... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

Cyrus S. Poonawalla

#6. It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. Lawyers are the new three-button, white-collar, cuff-shooting cowboys. They fulfill all the cowboy criteria. Workingmen with arcane skills. They can be both good and bad, sheriffs and gunslingers.

A.A. Gill

#8. It's depressing a little when you don't see outside the tour bus and underground in a stadium. If you go outside near the venue there are lots of fans everywhere so you can't just have a minute to enjoy the sunshine alone and think.

LeCrae

#9. I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#10. I will be like Nijinksi, who was taken last year to the Russian ballet, and could not comprehend what spectacle he was viewing. I will be alone, quite alone in myself, indifferent to all the world's ballets.

Andre Breton

#11. You have cable?" He nodded toward her TV.
She tossed him the clicker. "Sure do. And if I remember, there's a Godzilla marathon on TBS tonight."
"Sweet," the vampire said, kicking his legs out. "I always root for the monster."
She smiled at him. "Me, too.

J.R. Ward

#12. Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

C.S. Lewis

#13. The tighter you try and hold on to something that you are afraid of losing, the more you are pushing it away.Those thoughts are filled with fear, and if you continue to persist, what you fear the most will come upon you.
Fear nothing - just think about what you want. It feels so much better!

Rhonda Byrne

#14. There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

Will Oldham