Saying Dont Expect Quotes & Sayings

Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery. — Euripides

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. — C. Wright Mills

I am walking up and down the line of sentries, under the dark boughs of the poplars. In the flooded ditch outside the rats are paddling about, making as much noise as otters. As the yellow dawn comes up behind us, the Andalusian sentry, muffled in his cloak, begins singing. Across no-man's-land, a hundred or two hundred yards away, you can hear the Fascist sentry also singing. — George Orwell

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason. — Brian Selznick

There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality. — C. G. Jung

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business. — Hillary Clinton

If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. — Nikola Tesla

I could understand ignorance, but I could not accept its glorification, still less its right to rule. — Jung Chang

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. — Mencius

The stories that contain badness are not bad stories. Rather, they are among some of the best. Because the storyteller who loves the children and gives the whole of his or her self to them by means of the tale - inviting at the same time the whole of the children's selves - is of all people the best able to confront true and truly terrible things with the children. — Walter Wangerin Jr.