Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Zombie

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

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.

Roz Savage

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

Richard DeVos

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

William J. H. Boetcker

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

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.

Will Cotton

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

Richard Corliss

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Samuel Johnson

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Richelle Mead

If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.

Ryan Kwanten

Don't feel like you're alone because you're not.

Woody Guthrie

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

Tracy Letts

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

Warren Buffett

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

Vartan Gregorian

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

Sarah Dessen

How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked out, hidden.

Walter Isaacson

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

Tracy Chapman

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.