Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings…

“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Great expectations can lead to inspiring and dramatic results if you're willing to take the next steps, trying to make a way in this…

— Germany Kent

“Very few can overcome their immediate feelings of hurt and victimhood and channelize it in creative ways of self-transformation. Often such a process takes…

— Shaheen Akhter Suraiya Begum Hameeda Hossain Sultana Kamal Meghna Guhathakurta Meghna Guhathakurta

“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that…

— V.C. Andrews

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

— Paul Rhys

“Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit... plant a cherry tree.”

— Coleen Murtagh Paratore

“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us…

— Charles Dickens

“Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.”

— Charles Dickens

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

— Tablo

“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the…

— Charles Dickens

“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the…

— Charles Dickens

Great expectations from you in the coming year, best of luck.

— Anonymous

“A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena. When we were initiating perestroika…

— Mikhail S. Gorbachev