Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Alan Dundes

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Al Gore

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Jane Austen

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

C. S. Lewis

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

David Hume

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

Barney Frank

Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

Dee Dee Ramone

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'

Deborah Eisenberg

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

Dennis Hopper

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

Dennis Kucinich

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

Alain Juppe

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!