"There is no such thing as expecting too much."

-- Susan Cheever

#Optimistic Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Expecting Quotes

“Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.”
“Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.”
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”

Source : Edward Eggleston (1874). “The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age”, p.128
“We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.”
“One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.”
“For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.”
“Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him.”

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