Quotes of: Life-expectancy Keyword

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

When asked what gave her the strength and commitment to refuse segregation, (Rosa) Parks credited her mother and grandfather "for giving me the spirit of freedom... that I should not feel because of my race or color, inferior to any person. That I sh...

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no matter what. Then, if you’re like me, when you just sit quietly, just be, and let yourself feel what you feel, the guilt creeps...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how...

Amy Chua

Man’s collective mastery of nature— even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion— can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have d...

Christopher Lasch

Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to h...

Clockwork Angel

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Shattered

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

Ralph Marston

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Lauryn Hill

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Mary Decker

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Max Lucado

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

Roy H. Williams

Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can't Give You Honesty.

Surgeo Bell

I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

Nathalie Kelley

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Jeb Bush

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Elisabeth Shue

They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

Jace Herondale

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Michael Mina

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Vernon A. Walters