Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're marketing no expectation, and we're trying to introduce people to players.

Frank Hadden

We believe we have a very good chance of winning this weekend. What's important to me is that the many thousands of Scots' fans traveling to Dublin do so not just in hope but with a genuine expectation of us doing something special again.

What's my expectation in the U.S.? I would like to replace Grey Goose.

Unfortunately, New Yorkers know firsthand the anguish associated with such a horrific disaster, but we also know there is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need. As we have proved in the past, we are a resilient and determined country. It is the Yankees' hope -- and expectation -- that the best fans in the world will follow the lead of so many others in giving of themselves at a time when so much is needed.

Unfortunately, it's an expectation when you hold an evening social event that there will be adult beverages, ... MOSI does so well, they have several events during the year. And Lowry Park Zoo, they make a lot of money.

With their Q4 guidance, the growth rate probably wasn't as impressive as investors were expecting. But my expectation is that they'll have a real strong fourth quarter.

Alan Green

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Alan Greenspan

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

Chris Alexander

Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Chogyam Trungpa

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Charlie Kaufman

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

Charlie Munger

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

Charlie Munger

I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

Charles Roven

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.

Charles Sanders Peirce

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Bob Beauprez

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Bill McCollum

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

William Shakespeare

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

Catherine Booth

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

Catherine Deneuve

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We all give up great expectations along the way.

Cathy Freeman

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Cathy Guisewite

So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

Casey Stoner

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

Carl Honore

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.