Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

We're looking to big Will -- he's been playing solid defense. We expect him to play real well.

This really exposes the industry. They say it's all about cost-based pricing. But this shows it is all about marketing. If it were truly about risk, you wouldn't expect to see such a wide range of approaches.

There are very few people who expect (the meeting) will yield substantial results.

Barbara Sher

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Marty Schottenheimer

We're playing our starting players. I don't expect Philip to play at all, barring injury.

We shipped 60 to 70 percent of what we normally would have expected to ship out of this harvest.

We thought we could do well but we didn't expect to be in this position. We've put ourselves in position to do something special. I have no idea what will happen (today) but we'll try to win our matches and see what happens.

We're 15-11 and a lot of teams with 11 losses aren't playing at this time of the year and that is a testament to those kids in that locker room. They never quit. For a team that wasn't expected to be here, I'm proud of these kids.

Phil Garner

We're a team and an organization that expects to win. That's the mantra from our owner and, I think, from our front office, too.

We're at 50 percent complete. We're on time. We're on schedule. We expect to open this in March of 2007.

We're a pretty good hockey team. In our locker room, we expect to win. Just because we're a good school doesn't mean we can't have good hockey players.

We hear sirens all the time out here, so you just expect there's been an accident.

Ben Roethlisberger

We had nothing to lose. Everyone expected us to lose the first game. Everyone expected us to lose the second game. Everyone expected us to lose this game. We had each other's back the whole way. Sometimes that's all you want is each other.

We had not expected such strong growth. I suppose we were a little overcautious.

We have had a harder time in the playoffs than I expected this year. But the tough road that we have had this season has only helped us prepare for the regional tournament.

There are a lot of folks around town who I expect will protest.

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.

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.

David Filo

What I didn't really expect getting into it was probably that it would require so much immediate attention.

We were by far the youngest team competing. But we expected to do well, no matter how young we are.

When we say there is going to be a private research and a public research institute, that is true. But we expect that the science at the two institutes is going to be very collaborative. Our hope is that it is essentially seamless.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Greg Olsen

Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win.

Lou really had a year that he had to stay away from major league baseball. I didn't know that at the time we talked about it. It's just not going to happen this year. And I would expect Lou to go back to managing.

Looper is important to our bullpen. Can it be a good bullpen? Yes, if somebody else steps up if he isn't what we expect him to be right away. The key is getting him to do the things he needs to be doing.

Last year was the first year in about 19 years they didn't make the playoffs, so you always know they are always going to have a quality team. They usually have a lot of talent. We don't know a whole lot about them, but I fully expect them to come in ready to play and have one or two real good pitchers to throw at us.

Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 500.