"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."

-- Douglas Adams

#Disappointment Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,”
“Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.”
“Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.”

Source : "Jonah Hill On Set Interview Get Him To The Greek – Also Talks The Adventurer’s Handbook, His Career, Sequels, And So Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 13, 2010.
“No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.”
“As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.”
“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism. We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.
“Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!”
“I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf

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