“I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curfew: my feet were hurting, my… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life,… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I look back at my first few seasons in the NBA, we didn't dominate as a team. There were a lot… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations -… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
I was raised in a favela, I had no expectations for my life. I would always wonder if I would be able… — Alex Pereira Copy Share Image
Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Everyone is in their own bubble with stresses, pressures, and expectations on themselves - no matter what job title they have. Mine… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I remember, in the early days of my marriage, I thought I married the wrong person. We held to our own ideas… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Building up expectations, creating unrealistic time frames, feeling like our end goal is the end all, be all can all lead to… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
“they say they only want flowers to grow from my mouth, so i will look them dead in the eye as i… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
There's obstacles, there's challenges, there's things that come in the way. So building relationships and building some of the expectations on the… — Ryan Day Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Dont blame yourself when something doesn't go as expected, sometimes the plans we have set out for ourselves just dont work out.… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It's the time to make choices you can be proud of. It's the time to be the best version of yourself and… — Erin Foster Copy Share Image
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
