Ironic Quotes ... Page 1
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"We all think we're going to be great. And we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren't met. But sometimes, our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations because the expected is just what keeps us steady, standing, still. The expected's just the beginning. The unexpected is what changes our lives." - Grey's Anatomy
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
"It's not brave if you're not scared." - Bounce
"to change, and to change for the better, are two different things." -german proverb
"It does not hit you until later, The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive." - marya hornbacher
"Well here's the good news, baby, everybody's scared. And the thing they're most scared of is missing an opportunity." - Lost
"Here's the one sweet lesson of history: Every soul is a mystery; faces change - what you knew grows strange; and we all have so many faces; the real self often erases..." - The Scarlet Pimpernel
"There has to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory." - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
"It's an urban myth that suicide rates spike during the holidays. Turns out they actually go down. Experts think it's because people are less inclined to off themselves when surrounded by family. Ironically, that same family togetherness is thought to be the reason why depression rates actually do spike at the holidays." - Grey's Anatomy
"sometimes the littlest thing in life changes something forever and there will be times when you wish you can go back to how things used to be but you just can't because things have changed so much."
"Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words, and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say or how to ask for what we really need."
"people are funny, ya know? it's like from the moment they meet you they are setting standards for the type of person you should be... without even knowing the type of person that you are. and when you fail to meet these standards they say you aren't the person they knew... and when you fly over the standards they do everything they can to bring you down. . . " -Beckie
"Women still remember the first kiss long after men have forgotten the last." - Gourmont
"Finding yourself isn't a miracle, a single mom who is working two jobs and still finds time to take her kids to soccer practice, that's a miracle, a teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that's a miracle, people want me to do everything for them. What they don't realize is, they have the power." - bruce almighty
"Sometimes questions are more powerful than answers." - Heroes
"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."
"We cannot learn without pain." -Aristotle
"and god help you if you are an ugly girl; course too pretty is also your doom. cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room." - Ani DiFranco, '32 flavors'
"Sometimes we get second chances, and sometimes we never make it past the first. It really makes you wonder why some things happen when they do."- Michelle Branch, "second chances"
"When all is said and done, more is said than done." - Twix wrapper
"Sometimes the thing that you are looking for is the one thing that you can't have."
"Maybe the past is like an anchor, holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be." - Sex and the City
"'once you get your fingers on the important questions, you can't turn away from them.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"I think all of us want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on, because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind. We need to remember what used to be good. If we don't, we won't recognize it even if it hits us between the eyes." -13 going on 30
"When you don't know what you're searching for, it's hard to know you've found it." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
"The big strong brave men, that we've all been reading about in novels and watching in movies since we've been nine years old, - -that's a fallacy. They don't exist. Men are not strong. Men are not brave. Men, are afraid. Even if they have a moment in a hotel elevator and it's totally romantic and full of potential, men are incapable of copping to it because, why? Men are weak." - The Ugly Truth
"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses." -John Irving, The Cider House Rules
"Because no one wants to admit that compassion and cruelty can exist side-by-side in one heart." - Desperate Housewives
"Why do they kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?"
"I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the people who are the worst at taking care of themselves are the ones the world actually needs the most. " - Smallville
"young men go to war, sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. always they feel they are supposed to. this comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down." - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
"Lucky for us, mental acuity and common sense rarely come in the same package." - Gossip Girl
"The love of your life might not actually be someone with whom you could spend a lifetime with."
"Girls suck. It's like they get lobotomized the second they hit puberty. One day you're all milling around in the Rainbow Brite section at FAO Schwartz. The next day someone has breasts... After that, it's all about getting boys to like you and whoever dies the thinnest wins." - Dawson's Creek
"Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need." - Grey's Anatomy
"Sometimes the things you complain most about are the things you care most about. Unfortunately you don't always know that before it's too late." -Boy Meets World
"We can't help ourselves. We see a line, we want to cross it. Maybe it's the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar. A sort of personal dare. Only problem is, once you've crossed it's almost impossible to go back. But if you do manage to make it back across that line you find safety in numbers." - Grey's Anatomy
"Sometimes the hardest save to make isn't a stranger in a burning building, it's the person closest to you. " - Smallville
"isn't that the thing with fantasies? fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality. whether you're fantasizing about wife-swapping, or cafe/bookshops, it's still a truism that they will always be safer when they are kept locked in your head." - bookends by jane green
"You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves." - Terry Brooks
"After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here's what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think life and circumstances have forced us truly to become an adult, your mother says something like that. Or worse, something like that. We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But, for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids, running around the playground, trying desperately to fit in." - Grey's Anatomy
"We choose Evil for the Good we see in it." - Aristotle
"The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost." - G.H. Chesterton
"'you don't believe it because you don't want to.'" - Starting From Square Two by Caren Lissner
"Our only security is our ability to change."
"I've been thinking a lot about secrets. How sometimes secrets keep people from feeling like they belong, and sometimes secrets make you feel like you do belong." - Roswell
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
"Because your greatest strength might also be your greatest weakness. Your hope." - Smallville
"some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see what you would have wanted had you known." - garrison keillor
"I can say, 'I am terribly frightened, and fear is terrible and awful, and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it's uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky.' But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?" - Barbara Streisand
