Quotes of: Life-expectancy Keyword

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Joseph Addison

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Joseph Altuzarra

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

Jonathan Ames

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Johnny Bench

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Jennifer Connelly

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

Donalyn Miller

The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face.

Darmie Orem

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

Debra Jo Rupp

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.

Duncan Sheik

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Daniel Tammet

If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

Donnie Wahlberg

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

David Foster Wallace

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

Elizabeth Edwards

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

Eddie Huang

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Elbert Hubbard

When we bless one another we shouldn't expect returned favours because blessings have no strings attached and they hold no sorrow.

Euginia Herlihy

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

Ben Elton

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Barbara Kingsolver

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Brian Molko

You can't put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

Barack Obama