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.

Two Chainz

You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.

Wayne Dyer

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

William Glasser

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Wendell Berry

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

Linda McCartney

In the years since I first met Paul Ive had all sorts of labels stuck on me. Now the new label is businesswomen. Sure I have this business. But what I am, what I am myself, is a photographer.

Mickey Gilley

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

John C. Maxwell

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

John Brunner

I'm myself, not a label.

Nikki Haley

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.