Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

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.

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.

Charlie Munger

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

Bill McCollum

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Jim Zalesky

We're not going to lose because we're not in shape; we're not going to lose because we didn't work hard enough. Those are things we can control, and I'm going to expect my team to be in great shape.

Until we get a league up and running, we can't expect to be in the media at home. We need that to get a toe hold. We win just by being here, and if we take away any money, that's a huge help.

Until Nasdaq starts moving forward, no one expects anything.

Meg Rosoff

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

Lesley Manville

People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.

Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.

Joe Harris

We don't have any concern. As long as the terminals are owned by the state, we're going to manage and operate them. P&O has always provided good service, and we've worked well together. We don't expect that will change.

Jason LaRue

Yeah, I saw it a few times last year. The start before the All-Star break, he didn't get the win or anything, but that's when he started to turn it around. That's what we should expect from him. I always knew it was there.

Whether that is going to change, I don't know. I would expect it would, but we will have to wait and see.

We've always been the underdog, and it's the kind of the position we expect to be in.

Kim Yuna

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Willie Randolph

You don't know what to expect when someone goes through something like that,

Mike Scioscia

To move Erstad, it would have to make the whole lineup better. It would be a significant move. You would expect significant results.

We're marketing no expectation, and we're trying to introduce people to players.

We are also expecting several teachers to retire.

Charles Krauthammer

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

What's my expectation in the U.S.? I would like to replace Grey Goose.

We're keeping an eye on the situation. We're expecting more rain. The ground is totally saturated.

Usually, it won't get worse, but it nags him. We're hoping we'll get it better and better before the playoffs start. The good news is we don't expect it to get worse.

We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.

John Farley

With the looming thunderstorms, expect high winds and possible hail.