The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. — Moby Copy Share Image
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not… — Adelle Davis Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
