Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Woodrell

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

Dane Cook

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

Dave Eggers

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

Dave Eggers

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

David Levithan

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

Stephen Jay Gould

If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears. co-author with Niles Eldridge

Two capsules here, three capsules there. It sounds like nothing, but when they're HIV meds, they're expensive. So I'm praying to God it's going to even out. Everyone had an expectation that this was going to be a smooth transition, but it hasn't been. Not even close.

There has been an expectation of a revaluation, and I'm not sure what the reaction will be to such a limited move,

John O'Donohue

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

Jim Les

We don't want this to be a one-and-done. Heck, I want to put pressure on myself to make this a yearly event, and that will trickle down to the expectation of our players having gotten a taste of this.

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

Kirsten Dunst

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

Kim Williams

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

Kajol

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

Julia Glass

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Ivan Illich

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

J. K. Rowling

So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

Matt Groening

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

Martha Grimes

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Martha Beck

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Martha Beck

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

Jurgen Klinsmann

We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.

Nadine Gordimer

A desert is a place without expectation.

Miriam Toews

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

Jessica McNamee

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

Jeremy Renner

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

Gilberto Gil

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

Greg Norman

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.

H. G. Wells

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

Jazmine Sullivan

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

Natalia Vodianova

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.