Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

Dennis Prager

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

Denis Johnson

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Deepak Chopra

Expectations determine outcome, always!

David Nicholls

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Ludwig von Mises

What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

Aaron Ashmore

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Bob Brown

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Anton LaVey

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

John Gibbons

He was outstanding. I still don't know why the Mets got rid of him.

Doris Lessing

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Ann Aguirre

I never belonged anywhere until I met you.

Dr. Seuss

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

Deborah Roberts

If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.

Brenda Lee

God has never disappointed me.

Chuck Klosterman

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

Jerry Greenfield

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

Jerome Bettis

I'm disappointed in you Tom Brady

Maria Sharapova

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

Kevin Keegan

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

Sonia Rykiel

I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.