"We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are."

-- Joseph Addison

#Expectations Quotes #May Quotes #Anticipation Quotes

“You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.”

Source : "This column will change your life: mise en place" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.
“I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.”
“One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.”
“I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!”
“We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.”
“I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.”
“I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase”
“You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.”

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