"I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else."

-- Nigel Evans

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.”
“She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?”
“Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them.”

Source : Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.168, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Has given me no choice but to advocate for the termination of this project.”
“Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”

Source : "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.
“Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.”
“If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.”
“What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.”

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