"As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them."

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Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

Maria Mitchell

#People Quotes #Disappoint Quotes

“I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.”
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
“If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.”
“Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naÃ¯ve and so frighteningly complex.”

Source : "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970), 1923.
“I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.”
“That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.”
“The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else.”
“When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.”

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