Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

David Kim

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Catherine Deneuve

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Carl Honore

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Tim DeBruycker

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

Joddie Gleason

We started off the season making a few more turnovers than we would have liked, but a lot of that had to do with all the new players learning a new system.

Nancy Diers

We started a little slow, and we picked it up after the first loss. We didn't serve receive well, and we missed a few serves that were critical. That just comes with experience.

Jamie Watson

We started a few games where we started strong, experience-wise but we should have played better in the end. We needed this game to stay in the playoff hunt.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Edward Kennedy

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.