Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paddy Ashdown

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Philip Zimbardo

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

Paula Creamer

My expectations are incredibly high,

Paula Abdul

True genius does not fulfill expectations. True genius shatters it.

Lisa Loeb

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

John Robbins

Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.

John Rawls

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

James Redfield

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

James Redfield

...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat,

Johnny Bench

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

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.

The great thing about us is it doesn't matter who you expect to step up. There's always someone else that steps up.

The industry was very strong last January, so in general people were expecting sales to be down this year.

The industry has been looking to see who's going to go first. If this happens, you can expect Merrill and Morgan Stanley to do something similar.

The image of manufacturing is unattractive to younger generations. In the past you expected people who needed a job to feed their family would show up, and you would have plenty of people to select from. It's not so anymore.

Rex Ryan

A lot was going to be expected of him. If he's ready to go, it takes time. He'll just be getting mental reps instead of the physical reps.

John Clarke

A half mile is as far as you can expect people to walk.

A gift long expected is sold, not given

You want to be part of program that has high expectations. You don't want to be part of a situation where you're not expected to do well.

You watch him on TV - we were watching him play Utah - and they do those things. They go out there with that sort of arrogance. That is just them. You expect it and you take it to them.

Mike Woods

You win it once; you're expected to win it again. So there is a lot of pressure there. He finally got that little but of that pressure off his back. He wrestled well this whole weekend.

And just the fact it hasn't been seen in so long, and we didn't expect to see it again.

And I would expect them to play much better than they did the other night.

George H. W. Bush

And, now, there is a way forward, ... And, part of the way forward is for the North Koreans to understand we are serious about this, and we expect there to be a verifiable process.

John Gibbons

All we can do is hope he's not out a long period of time. It's unfortunate because we're expecting a lot out of him this year.

All the trends, in my view, are negative. On the whole, I expect our work force problems in science and technology only to get worse.

Chad Anderson

The kids are ready for this one. Games like this are what you play for. It's the same old Stanhope. They've got a good running game. They can throw it when they need to and they play good defense. Our guys know what to expect and what it will take to win.