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.

Robert Orben

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Brian Giles

We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.

Retief Goosen

We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

William Vickrey

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

Ian Thorpe

I'm not worried about the pressure that comes with it, a little concerned, but not worried,

Olivier Rochus

If we want to win, it is very important to get this match, ... It would get some pressure off Christophe's shoulders.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Tullian Tchividjian

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

Robert Rodriguez

The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

Rod Stewart

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Zayn Malik

I just wanted somebody to tell me that I could sing.

Rick Springfield

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Kevin Bacon

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Jon Bernthal

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

Luc Besson

I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.