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.

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Brian Harris

May you, my friend, find God sends comforting warmth, to speed you back to your rekindled and welcoming hearth.

Nicole Wolff

I feel really good about this. It gives me a comforting feeling knowing he wants me in the game. I've been shooting well in practice, but I just rush my shots when I get into the game. Obviously I haven't been scoring much. I think I was just more relaxed.

David Nicholls

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Vanessa Minnillo

It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.

Petra Haden

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Niels Christensen

We have had disappointing data in the United States this week and in the euro zone we have had comforting news. If we get a weak GDP number no one would want to hold onto long dollar positions next week.

Barry Hyman

Today's market is comforting in that it's back a bit, but it just doesn't have the feel of yesterday having made a bottom.

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.