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.

Al Groh

Losing stays with you a lot more than winning stays with you. Yes, there are positive feelings that come with winning. But you prefer not to live with that losing feeling that stays with you for a long time.

Al Pazar

Newport stuck its neck out and did the heavy lifting. Some of the other ports resent us for that. There probably are some hard feelings out there.

Charles Spurgeon

If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy; your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms; and your need is the motive for heavenly goodness. Go as you are, and let your miseries plead for you.

Diane Lane

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Diane Keaton

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Denis Diderot

There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

William Glass

I can't put my feelings into words. I don't know what's going on. My words won't flow right now.

Ed O'Brien

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Deepak Chopra

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.