Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Thomas Merton

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Thomas Carlyle

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

David Kim

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Catherine Deneuve

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Mary Carillo

That was something to me. There were times when I was crying, and she'd come around to me and say, 'Are you all right, Mary?' I was broken up.

Richard Browne

We have broken up ... a major counterfeiting ring that has been inflicting substantial losses in the recording industry,

William Shakespeare

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

Phyllis Battelle

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

New Giants

You can go out there and get your neck broken and be paralyzed, ... It's a dangerous job we do.

Nicholas Christakis

You can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies but also when your partner falls ill.

Carroll Doherty

It hasn't broken through with the public in a big way.

Jeremy Bonderman

I thought it was broken at first. I won't say that it hurt so much as it was the shock of the hit. I'm just happy it is what it is.

Adrian Beltre

I thought it was broken at first. I've got the feeling back in it now, so I know it's going to be OK.