Dave Eggers Quotes

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

Dave Eggers

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• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Home
  • Society
  • Government

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Expectation

• I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Audience
  • Expectation
  • Satisfied

• An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • American
  • Want
  • Attitude

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Mad

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Expectation

• When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Expectation

• This is the first time that astronauts of the first group have exhibited things that are personal and sentimental to them. We hope it will encourage youngsters to follow in our footsteps.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • Time
  • Hope

• Travelling doesn't stress me, since adequate 10-hour sleep post-travel is sufficient for me.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Sleep
  • Travel
  • Stress

• I've been really pleasantly surprised by 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'd never really heard of that gang before, that comic series before. And I think when you go into those, watching those sort of films, you watch them with no expectation as well, so you're always kind of pleasantly surprised, I think.

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Expectation
  • Gang
  • Galaxy

• I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Trying
  • High
  • Expectation

• A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Expectation

• The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • God
  • Winning
  • Keys

• You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

  

  William P. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Mess
  • Melody

• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Find
  • Corruption

• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Expectation