All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions. — David Keating Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much."… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series… — Anthony Head Copy Share Image
All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic,… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives. — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I can't save you like that Ty. What you did to me wasn't this brilliant thing, like you think it was. You… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
