“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“There is a great fulfillment when you commit your life to lifelong learning.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You ought to dare impossible things. These will be possible by ceaseless reliance on a higher power.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“A book lay overturned on the floor beside the bed, its hard cover collecting dust. Great Expectations.” — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“We put great expectations on our tomorrows when we truly need to rely on ourselves. Far too many overlook personal action, as… — Jay Long Copy Share Image
Just because life doesnt always turn out the way we expect it to, dont let that stop you from having great expectations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Great expectations can lead to inspiring and dramatic results if you're willing to take the next steps, trying to make a way… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age. — Tablo Copy Share Image
“Emeritus John Farrington said, "Sometimes God's creation does not yield to scientific research without great effort and our results are not always… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great… — Richard W. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll… — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it. No doubt my health would be much better if it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“Very few can overcome their immediate feelings of hurt and victimhood and channelize it in creative ways of self-transformation. Often such a… — Shaheen Akhter Suraiya Begum Hameeda Hossain Sultana Kamal Meghna Guhathakurta Meghna Guhathakurta Copy Share Image
“...sapevo, con mio grande dolore, molto spesso, se non sempre, che l'amavo a dispetto della ragione, a dispetto di ogni promessa, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“school. At first I had great expectations, and even if I didn’t say so clearly to myself I was glad to be… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena. When we were… — Mikhail S. Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Almost none of them understood Great Expectations or David Copperfield, anyway. They were not only too young for the Dickensian language, they… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“How do you get through any of your classes?" Cath had hours of assigned reading, almost every single night. "Coping strategies." "Such… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“Love is a source of anxiety until it is source of boredom; only friendship feeds the spirit. Love raises great expectations in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
