Expectancy Violation Theory Quotes & Sayings

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody. — Al Sharpton

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference. — Kevin Kelly

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. — John Fowles

Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

One only realizes the extent of his love when he thinks he has lost the one he loves; and unhappily, very often only begins to love when he feels his love is not returned. — Waguih Ghali

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. — Philibert Joseph Roux

No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. — George Orwell

My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup. — Patricia A. Woertz

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. — Neal Stephenson

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. — Hans Kung

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money. — Rand Paul

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope. — Narendra Modi

If people are sick and hurting and lost, I guess it falls on everybody to address those problems in some fashion. Because injustice, and the price of that injustice, falls on everyone's heads. — Bruce Springsteen

Q: Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact? A: Because breasts don't have eyes. — Scott McNeely

The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before.. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of ... previously unrelated forms of reference or universes of discourse, whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem. — Arthur Koestler