Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Krauthammer

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

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Carl Jung

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

Dalai Lama

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Harrison Ford

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

Hannah More

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Stephen Jay Gould

If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears. co-author with Niles Eldridge

Kirsten Dunst

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

Kim Williams

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

Kajol

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

Julia Glass

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Judith Guest

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Jessica McNamee

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

Jeremy Renner

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

Gilberto Gil

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

Henry David Thoreau

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Henry David Thoreau

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

Jim Gaffigan

It took me a long time to understand not to get caught up in other people's expectations. It really comes down to creative fulfillment. It took me a while to realize I don't want to just be on a show to be on a show.

Jennifer Lawrence

I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.

Jeffrey Pierce

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

Jeff Lindsay

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

Jeremy Irvine

Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

Jeremy Lin

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

Jeff Bridges

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.

Elon Musk

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Evan Esar

Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.

Evan Esar

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

Eskinder Nega

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

Esther Hicks

The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation.

Esther Hicks

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.