I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high… — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any… — Diane Wood Copy Share Image
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet."… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than… — James David Barber Copy Share Image
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw,… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image