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.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Ovid

Novelty in all things is charming.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Terence McKenna

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

Madeleine M. Kunin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Samuel Johnson

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

Emily Dickinson

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

Elizabeth I

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

Helen Rowland

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Annie Dillard

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

John Webster

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

Plautus

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Jean de la Bruyere

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.