Expectations Quotes - Page 8

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

I do not adjust my standpoint to others expactations.

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Himmilicious

What have you done to qualify yourself for the miracles you are expecting.

Sunday Adelaja

Result won’t come if we don’t provide the reason for it to come.

Sunday Adelaja

Only crazy people don’t do anything new and they expecting new result.

Sunday Adelaja

People tend to freak out when something diverges from their expectations.

Gayle Foreman

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

George MacDonald

What is it that causes us to fall in love? We are met with those first, initial glimpses-- a kind of curiosity, a longing for that which is both familiar and unknown in the other. And then comes the surprise of discovery; we share certain aspirations, certain appreciations, and that which is different excites us. Before each other, we are moved to bravery and we come to reveal more and more of ourselves, and when we do, those very traits that caused us some embarrassment or shame become beautiful in ways we did not understand before, and the entire world becomes more beautiful for it. There are, too, those intimate and nearly primitive stirrings, the scent of the neck, the delicious tremble of skin and breath. Yet for all their pleasures, they are as tenuous as light and air, and demand no fidelity.And then there is this: Does not love depend on some belief in the future, some expectation beyond the delight of the moment? We fall in love because we imagine a certain life together. We will marry. We will laugh and dance together. We will have children.When expectation falls to ruins, what is there left for love?

Eowyn Ivey

I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to everything, but saying yes to something I cannot live up to leads to bitterness and disappointment.

Karin Rahbek

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't let others expectations direct the course of your life.

Julianne Donaldson

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

Arthur Schopenhauer

they saythey only wantflowersto grow frommy mouth,so i willlook themdeadin theeyeas ishovesoft petalspastmy lips,chewwithmy jawcompletelyunhinged,& spitthemdownattheir feet-i will never be your expectations of me

Amanda Lovelace

Expectations. Strong belief something will happen in the future.Pressure. A motivator. A positive. An indicator you are in the right place.

Joe Maddon

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

Tana French

Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Keep your expectation with God only, not with Human.

Rashid Jorvee

Never expect anything from anyone, if you wants to live a happy life.

Rashid Jorvee

Never expect others to be like you, it can be the biggest nightmare!!! Collaboration and synchronization needs to be found in the difference

Harrish Sairaman

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

Heraclitus

When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle.

Marty Rubin

Don’t help anybody’s expectation of you to grow. Don’t even give them a hint that you will fulfill it. Whatsoever suffering you pass through, be ready to pass through it, but don’t allow others to have expectations about you. Otherwise the world will close you in and there will be imprisonment. Once you nod yes to doing something, then you are closed in. You are in the tunnel already, and now with every step, every new act, you will fall into a new misery, new unfulfillment, new lies, new failures. Drop fulfilling others’ expectations, and drop expecting others to fulfill yours. Remember, if you suffer, you suffer because of you; if others suffer, they suffer because of them. Nobody suffers because of others – remember that deeply. Only then will you be able to be really sincere to your inner self; and that sincerity is religiousness.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

Chuck Klosterman

You can't beat your own expectations. The latter set the tone, and shape who you've become, and who you would end up becoming...

Assegid Habtewold

It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth.

Siri Hustvedt

If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.

Siri Hustvedt

I used to have all of my ducks in a row. Now I'm happy to just have them in my vicinity.

Mommy Moo Moo

I had never seen anything like New York, and its newness held the promise of my future: dense with the experience I craved - romantic, urbane, intellectual. Looking back on that moment, I believe I was saved from disappointment by the nature of my "great expectations." I honestly wasn't burdened with conventional notions of finding security and happiness. At that time of my life, even when I was "happy," it wasn't because I expected it. That was for characters less romantic than myself. I didn't expect to be rich, well fed, and kindly treated by all. I wanted to live deeply and fully, to embrace whatever the city held for me.

Siri Hustvedt

Don’t expect miracles why you have not done anything.

Sunday Adelaja

We tend to live down to other people’s expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams." - George Weasly

J.K. Rowling

You should only expect something from your efforts.

Sunday Adelaja

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place, but all our inventions can't create the one thing we require: to deserve any fond attention we might accidentally receive, to receive any fond attention we don't in the course of things deserve. We are never enough to ourselves because we can never be enough to another. Any one of us walks into any room and reminds its occupant that we are not the one they most want to see. We are never the one. We are never enough.

Gregory Maguire

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

Jude Morgan

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

Abigail Biddinger

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Georgette Heyer

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

Anthony Bourdain

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and effortless..We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical. We expect to be rich and charitable, powerful and merciful, active and reflective, kind and competitive. We expect to be inspired by mediocre appeals for excellence, to be made literate by illiterate appeals for literacy...to go to 'a church of our choice' and yet feel its guiding power over us, to revere God and to be God. Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

India Knight

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Jodi Picoult

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

Jude Morgan

Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being

Adil Adam Memon

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Sebastian Horsley

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?""To get a head start on the traffic," Bree said."To get a head start on the traffic," Antonia agreed in indignation. "I mean, here we are, dancing and singing our little guts out, and all those folks want to do is get to bed early. I ask you, whatever happened to common courtesy? Whatever happened to decent manners? Doesn't anyone care about craft anymore? And on top of that, it's not even nice.

Mary Stanton

I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed." She moved her turquoise bracelet back and forth on her wrist. "So I had two sons, John and Richard, because I wanted to, not because I thought they would rescue me in old age. I got out of all social organizations and clubs in my fifties so I could spend time with my grandchildren, not because they would give something back to Jack and me later on, but because that was what I wanted to do--and I have loved doing it. Believe me, these have been selfish decisions.

Terry Tempest Williams

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Edith Evans

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.

Anne Frasier

I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.

Jillian Lauren

The only things that I expect, are miracles.

Greg Dutilly

Meanwhile she's coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She's definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.She escorts me to a table full of people and presents me. She introduces them briefly. This one's from Morocco, that one from Italy, he's Persian--I'm not exactly sure what that means--this one's from "the UK." They're all in their twenties, poised and dismissive. They don't know or care who I'm supposed to be at home or where I went to school. They're measuring something else I can't see and don't understand.They nod and turn back to each other. They seem to be waiting for a cue from Chloe to release them from having to feign interest. She introduces herself at substantially more length. Her father is Chinese and her mother is Swiss; she grew up in Hong Kong and "in Europe."I grew up in Michigan and in Michigan. But she didn't ask.

Kenneth Cain

Besides, what's in a name? Actually, a lot. Whether taken from a parent or grandparent, some saint, or even the late great Elvis, your name insists another person's dream of what you should have been. The portrait of some ancestral ideal lingers through heirloom names. Gender specific names imply all sorts of expectations. More than just a signifier used to summon, instruct, address, accuse, sometimes praise us, our names define and thereby limit us. They put us in a cage.

Brien Piechos

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

Tonya Hurley

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Robert Jordan

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

Tom Perrotta

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Julia Glass

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

John Green

I hope you do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life.

Julianne Donaldson

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