"Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)"
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert has 507 quotes on this site.
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come,…
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always…
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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There…
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the…
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I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world,…
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that…
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have…
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More Adage Quotes
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It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline…
— Gordon Bethune
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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help…
— Chelsea Clinton
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The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
— Kerry Stokes
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge…
— Thomas Huxley
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That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as…
— Alexander Hamilton
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
— Yanni
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Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil…
— Wallace Pratt
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Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff…
— Adam Carolla
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the…
— Thomas Huxley
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America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of…
— Samuel Roth
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