Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. A. Salvatore

We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

Nathaniel Branden

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

Terry Gilliam

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Terence McKenna

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

Teju Cole

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner...

Shinichi Suzuki

Patience is the absence of expectation.

Rachel Cohn

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

Rachel Cohn

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

Q-Tip

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Kofi Annan

In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.

Ron Kaufman

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Thomas Malthus

Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.

Steven Erikson

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

Lisa Gardner

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Linda Tripp

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Linda Tripp

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

Linda Grant

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

Lawrence Kohlberg

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

Richard Carlson

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Russell Simmons

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.

Rumi

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Simone Elkeles

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Seth

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

Sheila Ballantyne

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Sigmund Freud

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Shirley Hazzard

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Steven Weber

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

Samuel Alexander

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Samuel Alexander

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Joseph Murphy

Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.