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.

Zhuangzi

You are still guided by your expectations.

Richard K. Morgan

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

Willie Nelson

I still probably smoke as much as I ever did!

Henry Rollins

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Nick McDonell

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

Marvin Hamlisch

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Mary Pope Osborne

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

Rachel Cohn

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

Eamon

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.