Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. — A. E. Housman
It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality. — Pierre Curie
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that? — Félix J. Palma
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. — Brandon Sanderson
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. — W. Somerset Maugham
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Jack Kinder
The importance of education plays a huge role. — Wes Moore
The power of literature to foster empathy is one of the most important ways in which it contributes to our understanding of the world. — Martha C. Nussbaum
The importance of Dream School is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying. — 50 Cent
The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. — Eric Ripert
Great Expectations Quotes
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. — William Carey
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. — Charles Dickens
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens — J. J. Watt
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege. — Lucretia Mott
The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. — Ray Wylie Hubbard
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. — Charles Dickens
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. — Charles Dickens
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. — Charles Dickens
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. — Charles Dickens
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends. — Charles Dickens
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one. — Charles Dickens
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores. — Charles Dickens
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property. — Charles Dickens
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. — Charles Dickens
... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose. — Charles Dickens
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. — Charles Dickens
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. — Charles Dickens
We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart. — Charles Dickens
It is positive that the United States and the European Union show a great deal of unity. Putin did not expect that. He thought he could split the EU, but the opposite happened: The EU imposed sanctions and even scaled them up. Of course we need more financial and military aid, the supply of lethal weapons is of crucial importance to us. — Arseniy Yatsenyuk
There is not going to be a "hydrogen economy," and no combination of alternative energy systems or fuels will allow us to continue the suburban pattern. It's finished. We will, however, desperately need to grow more of our food closer to home, and so the preservation of agricultural hinterlands is of great importance. But don't expect the fiesta of suburban construction to continue more than a few more years. — James Howard Kunstler
Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness. — Howard W. Hunter
Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks. — Carine Roitfeld
Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists. — Stuart Stevens
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