Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yvon Chouinard

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

Cassandra Clare

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.

Larry Burkett

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

Julie Murphy

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

Elliott Gould

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

David Mamet

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Curtis Jackson

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves,

Stephen Colbert

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

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.