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I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated. -- Sylvester Stallone
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. -- Sylvester Stallone
Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories. -- Jeremy Irvine
I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations. -- Tim Rice
I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning. -- Nell Newman
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities. -- Jane Roberts
These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age. -- Tablo
Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day. -- Eric Anthony
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. -- Norman Cousins
We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world? -- Mark Victor Hansen
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments -- Boris Yeltsin
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments. -- Boris Yeltsin
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils! -- Nicholas Kurti
Embrace each new day with great expectations. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We all give up great expectations along the way. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. -- Charles Dickens
It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. -- Roopleen
The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities. -- Seth
Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed. -- V.C. Andrews
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them. -- Jeb Bush
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. -- Charles Dickens
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. -- Pamela Anderson
The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. -- Anuj
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. -- Charles Dickens
There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great. -- Robert Dallek
Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus. -- Yunus-bek Yevkurov
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. -- Charles Dickens
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty. -- David Nicholls
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. -- Joan Didion
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!... -- Charles Dickens
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. -- Paul Rhys
By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better. -- Richard W. Fisher
Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great. -- Lee Ann Womack
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. -- Famke Janssen
I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures. -- Sally Hawkins
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. -- David Nicholls
I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding. -- Christopher Meloni
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me. -- Charles Dickens
Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations. -- Gustav Heinemann
Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money. -- Felix Dennis
I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like. -- Pat Bowlen
I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. -- Mindy Kaling
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art. -- Leon Krier
Great expectations are better than a poor possession. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves. -- Todd Whitaker
I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond. -- Shahid Khan
GREAT SECRET Whenever I'm learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high. -- James Marcus
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. -- Pamela Anderson
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain. -- John Maynard Keynes
I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams. -- David Oakes
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact -- Albert Bandura
If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations. -- Alan Loy McGinnis
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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