Expectancy Quotes

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An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with… — Fred Allen
Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired… — Thomas Troward
A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get… — Ernest Holmes
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs… — Richard J. Foster
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with… — Robert Breault
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you… — Lewis Thomas
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise… — Wayne Dyer
I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy,… — Sherry Lansing
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance â€“ almost dull, in fact â€“ in reality, is crammed with thousands… — Wassily Kandinsky
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us… — Diane Ackerman
We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also. — Ken Buck
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It… — P.J. O'Rourke
Why isnâ€™t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy… — Tony Abbott
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is â€˜an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.â€™ Here… — George Frederic Watts
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate… — Niall Ferguson
If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25… — Moby
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States… — Rod Parsley

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