When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity. — Mark Oliver Copy Share Image
It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up. — Calvin Harris Copy Share Image
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do. — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
