Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

That was his expectation when he turned up at that meeting.

That was as expected by the medical staff - they'll be fine.

That would be unique. You play the schedule, however it works. They've played us very well, so I'm not going to go in there and expect anything but another tough series.

Stephen Harper

That would be our expectation, ... I'm obviously open to quicker timetables, but we're prepared for that one.

That was the first time she was really able to stretch her legs. This race will be much, much tougher but, at this point, she's on top of her game and I expect her to run a big race.

That was real big. We knew we could do it, but to get off to a start like that ... I didn't expect that.

(The 100) is something we're expecting her to be a threat in when we get to state.

We have an expectations problem. If you offer it for traffic, a reasonable person would expect you would offer it for transit.

Paul Wolfowitz

We have already said we expect our contribution to grow significantly, especially in the reconstruction phase,

James Baker

We have already lost something like 10 percent of our reefs. Two-thirds of them are under great stress, and we expect that if we don't do something we may lose another 30 percent in the next 10 to 20 years.

Pete Domenici

We need to have realistic expectations about how long we should expect high prices for natural gas, and we need to prepare for shortages,

We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.

We could expect up to 500 participants and observers at the VFW during weigh-in.

We know that the pistol and holster are missing and we expect there may have been a handful of other things taken.

Brenden Morrow

We just didn't have the jump right away. We expected a big game from them because they've been hot.

We played pretty good at times, then we had our fair share of mistakes at times. We played better than we have been playing, but I still expect more from them.

We played outstanding. We shot the way they expected to all year.

Sarah Kay

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

Rihanna

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Patricia McBride

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Chris Stewart

We had our chances. You can't expect to win a game with one goal. That's all there is to it.

We have the utmost respect for these soldiers and we can't expect anything more from them.

We were hoping it (the increased amount) would level off. We don't expect any relief from high adjustments until June.