Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Jodi Picoult

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

John Green

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

P. D. James

A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.

Initially the expectation was 50 machines a month, maybe a 100, and we don't have to work for anybody.

In any other industry that sort of growth expectation would get massive applause. With Nokia, however, we've got used to seeing such huge growth figures that it doesn't really impress.

Fidel Castro

I know that Venezuela is living moments of great expectation and hope. I want to share those hopes with the people of Venezuela.

David Morse

Implicitly when they make that request there's an expectation that it will be paid back,

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

It wasn't about the money and it wasn't about No. 600. It was a function of Sammy's expectation of his own performance. He didn't want to go out there and under-perform like he did last year because it was just too painful for him, and it's just something he doesn't want to go through again.

It's a lot more pressure this year. There's a lot of expectations and there's a lot of seniors and from Day 1, I think the expectation has been there for us to get back to the state. Hopefully we can get over some of this sickness, these illnesses, and get ourselves back in playing shape.

David Whyte

In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.

Daunte Culpepper

I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.

Danny Boyle

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Colin Firth

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

Investors will tolerate a small increase in inventories -- about 5 to 10 percent -- as long as there is an expectation of strong third quarter sales.

I guess there was a sense of expectation that it was going to happen. He was very cordial.

Irving Fisher

The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.

George Bernard Shaw

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

George Bernard Shaw

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

Gemma Chan

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

You can have all you can expect and accept.

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

I don't know if they raised the expectation level, but they just have performed better.

Harrison Ford

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

Hannah More

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

The Internet is a destination. It's some place to see what's going on, to hang out, to find new things. You go there with the expectation that there is something interesting happening and you'll be informed or entertained just by going there.

David Foster Wallace

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

What we probably needed to do was not put that expectation on that he's going to kick four goals every game,

When you go to the line with a sense of urgency, there's more of an expectation to knock those free throws down.

Elon Musk

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

You need to explain they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace and what are the ramifications if they violate the policy.

James D'arcy

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.