Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

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.

Charles Dickens

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

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.

Cate Blanchett

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

Bill Meyer

The population at large, I think, has a greater expectation of quality.

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Verna Rutherford

We are hoping and expecting all of the people who signed the petition will go vote.

Eric Ross

We are hearing the back-to-school season was good and that notebooks were particularly strong. We are expecting they are going to see normal seasonality for the industry into the fourth quarter.

Bob Derr

With this system we're playing, we're expecting that we're going to have to sub quite a bit, especially with the forwards and midfielders because they're playing the full field. They're playing up-and-down.

Carolyn Kwan

We're still expecting one more rate increase and I think this probably should not have too much of an impact overall.

Timothy Noah

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.

Edgar Gonzalez

When we got here, we were expecting to win and we wanted to win. Right now, we are just trying not to finish in last place. Maybe we can get (a win) out of this.

Thomas Finlan

We are also expecting several teachers to retire.

Cai Luoyi

Most traders are expecting that the bull-run in the market is unchanged. But with prices at these higher levels, and now that stability has returned after the recent volatility, traders are taking a more wait-and-see approach.

Carlos Ghosn

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Paul Patton

We have no interest in pursuing it at this time.

Rob Young

We have no idea if there is an interest. But we won't know unless we ask. And we are going to start doing that on Monday.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Douglas Chickering

We have renewed interest in bowling, so we are going to revisit it at our meeting and find out the level of interest.

John Hull

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

bell hooks

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Brian Billick

The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound.

Donald Rumsfeld

The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.