Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard DeVos

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

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

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

Rosemary Clooney

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

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Kevin Smith

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

Jonathan Nolan

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Richelle Mead

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

William Zinsser

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

William Whewell

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

Samuel P. Huntington

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

Samuel P. Huntington

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Samuel P. Huntington

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Richard M. Nixon

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Jane Austen

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

James D. Watson

I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.