“I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.” PeopleFirstsHomePastNightCoursesHoursPartyDinnerExpectedCoffeeHardestMealsExhaustedSaturdayDessertSaturday NightBedtimeAppetizers Author:Ina Garten
“You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career.” FeelsMeanMightCoursesPartyCareersReturnComfortableTradeProfitExpectedFavorsOddsTradingBeing Positive Author:Gary B Smith
“Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.” ThinkingMenPersonsLongDoeHas BeensIdeasFeelingsYoungNextPartyStupidLong TimeIntellectualExpectedFavorsCleverYoung ManShockLunchPerpetualRelentlessNephewHuxleyStupid PersonClever Person Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.” ShouldWarMightCausesPartyConflictSlaveryExpectedCeaseCivil WarMagnitudeAmerican Civil WarDurationInaugural AddressAmerican SlaveryCauses Of War Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.” MenYearsEndsGodThreeNationsPartyStruggleConditionsClaimsExpectedThree Years Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.” FirstsChildrenMadeDreamMotherPartyMistakeScientistExpectedRocketsCocktailsHopes And DreamsCocktail PartiesNeurosurgeonsDesignated Hitter Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party.” FirstsPartyGroupsWeekCrossesCourtEntertainmentExpectedSupremeBurningOutcomesAmendmentsSupreme CourtFirst AmendmentChristmas Party Author:Tina Fey