Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Drabble

How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Michael Bloomberg

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Emmylou Harris

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

Patricia Briggs

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Paddy Ashdown

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Philip Zimbardo

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

Paula Creamer

My expectations are incredibly high,

Paula Abdul

True genius does not fulfill expectations. True genius shatters it.

Lisa Loeb

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

John Robbins

Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.

John Rawls

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

James Redfield

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

James Redfield

...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat,

Johnny Bench

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

Sherry Turkle

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Nick Goepper

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

Nora Ephron

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

The key factor in that expectation is the pronounced slowdown in the U.S. economy,

Ron Zook

These guys are in as good a shape as they've ever been in their lives, there's no question about that. What happens is the expectation is that we're going to go out, we're going to go through practice and just get through it. As far as we've got to go, we can't do that. In my mind the game's tomorrow. It's not in September; it's tomorrow.

Peter Drucker

Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

Peter Drucker

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Max Lucado

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

Our expectation was that it would have to do with Social Security, pensions, or health care.

There just wasn't anything there to give us a reasonable expectation of securing a guilty verdict in court, which is what is required for us to proceed.

There's a reasonable expectation that at some point there will be further consolidation and Lloyds, of all the high street banks, is probably in the most tricky position in terms of how it's performed and the size of its dividend, and for that reason it's more vulnerable.

There's always that expectation that organic flowers might not be perfect. But we go out of our way to make sure that ours are. We don't even keep flowers longer than 48 hours; if we haven't sold them, we throw them away.

Ron Allen

This isn't what I wanted. I had every expectation of still being here on Saturday. Whether it was for third place or first place, we wanted to still be playing.