Edmund Burke Quotes

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I feel whenever my shows are too hyped, they usually don't work.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

Do you think the UFC is going to owe you a favor when you step up on short notice when nobody else is doing it? There's a reason a whole bunch of us aren't doing it. If you want to be that scapegoat, and think that the UFC's going to owe you one, good luck with that. Let me know how that goes.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.

The worst is, a friend will invite me over, and she'll say, 'Hey, you've been working so hard. I'll make you dinner. It'll be great.' I'm like, 'That's so sweet! Thank you!' And I'll come over, and she's got hardwood samples laid out! She's using me!

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

Come on, if you lose, no one's going to be happy and nor should they be.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.