“Expectations are resentments under construction.”

“The road to success is always under construction”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet

“When you're with somebody for a long time or have a child with someone, you start to expect them to be this person you had in mind. Then if they don't fill the expectation, resentment starts to come up.”

Jaime Pressly (1977) American actress, model, producer

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

“This is easy work:
1. Complaining
2. Pretending
3. Blaming
4. Judging
5. Resenting
6. Taking
7. Shouting
8. Expecting
9. Waiting
10. Doubting”

Ralph Smart

“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.”

John Von Neumann (1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath

“The parliament intended to have hanged him, and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under one arm and Magna Carta under the other.”

John Aubrey book Brief Lives

“Cagan’s adaptive mechanism for explaining expectations of inflation has sometimes been criticized as an ad hoc formulation that is inconsistent with the hypothesis that expectations are rational. In this paper, we have showed that conditions exist under which adaptive expectations are fully rational.”

Thomas J. Sargent (1943) American economist

“Taxation must be used as an instrument of social policy, but if carried too far under the profit system, it may be an instrument of destruction rather than construction.”

Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman