"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the…" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site.
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
— Hannah Arendt
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
— Isaac Asimov
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
— Chinua Achebe
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
— Richard Bach
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When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to…
— Michele Bachmann
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
— Abu Bakr
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
— Drew Barrymore
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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