"If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all."

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Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

Jeff Kinney

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Mistakes will be made, make no mistake”
“We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits, Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.”

Source : Song: Soul On Ice
“The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.”
“I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.”

Source : "Andy Murray finally breaks through". Interview with Shaun Assael, www.espn.co.uk. December 3, 2012.
“About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel'sÂ Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours,Â I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.”
“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
“I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.154, Algonquin Books

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