Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Robinson

There's no real problem. At that moment, at that that time, I expected a little different reaction from him. He said he was only mad at himself -- he had an opportunity and let it slip away.

There's no quit in that team. I didn't expect it to get to 53-52, but I expected them to come back.

There's no question it is a flamboyant scene, but that is also Berlin, ... And as long as there is nothing forbidden happening, I expect tolerance.

There's just no reason to expect this market will put itself into reverse.

There's not much expected of us this year, but I think we'll surprise people.

The trade of the week is trying to be short in front of what's expected to be a strong payrolls report and in anticipation of the refunding supply next week.

Chuck Jones

The top line looks very good, ... were better than expected just because of the size of the company.

The top 16 make all-state and I'm really expecting all four of our relays to make that.

The trends are very strong. We're making up ground. We expected some of that, but the numbers now are better than I thought they would be.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

Sherry Turkle

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Nick Goepper

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

Nora Ephron

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.

Shana Alexander

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shane Claiborne

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Seamus Heaney

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Michael Crichton

One of the most difficult features of direct experince is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

Michael Crichton

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

Michael Crichton

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

Mesut Ozil

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

Michel de Montaigne

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Mason Cooley

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

Mason Cooley

When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

Michael Gove

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

Michael Cerveris

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

Mia Wasikowska

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Miguel de Cervantes

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Margaret Drabble

How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.