Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jonathan Ross

We did not expect to see so much volatility at the open, given the run-up in 3Com, in anticipation of the float,

We did not expect this would happen. We just want to make people happy every day. We hope people will understand that we just wanted to help.

Katsuya Okada

We did not expect this. I don't think our policies were wrong, but we must reconsider our tactics.

We did not expect it would take this long and we are disappointed by the time frames.

We did it just before the half. Our offensive coordination expected us to down there and score.

We did fine. So far, so good. I wasn't sure what to expect with so many young kids here for the first time. Tomorrow is the harder day.

We did better than a lot of people expected us to, but we still could have done better.

Jane Austen

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Liv Tyler

When I finally saw the film, I was floored because it was more than I even expected it would be, and I already had very high expectations.

Cate Blanchett

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

Thomas Clarkson

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

Bill Meyer

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

Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.

Barbara Bush

My worst expectations never happened.

Bruce Lee

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Eckhart Tolle

When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

Eckhart Tolle

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Elijah Wood

I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations

Bill Paxton

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

Bill Johnson

There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Baltasar Gracian

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

Baltasar Gracian

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Delta Goodrem

I don't have any expectations.

Arlo Guthrie

No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

What we probably needed to do was not put that expectation on that he's going to kick four goals every game,