Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

Richard DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Vinny Testaverde

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Warren Buffett

There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

Warren Buffett

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

Rosemary Clooney

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Peter Flynn

We made progress, we haven't made as much progress as we'd like to make,

Richelle Mead

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

William H. Seward

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

Colin Brown

Going into the auditions, I really did not have any expectations, ... I thought it was impossible to get on the show.

Bruce Hoffman

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Steven Goldstein

It is impossible to overestimate how much this victory means to our organization and the LGBT community.

Richelle Mead

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

Renny Harlin

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Will Eisner

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Rod Parsley

When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

Rick Warren

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Jorge Luis Borges

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.