“expectation isn't the same as desire”
Source: Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood348
Canadian writer 1939Related quotes
“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
“A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Big Dreams http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/big-dreams-2/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“What is wisdom? Always desiring the same things, and always refusing the same things.”
quid est sapienta? semper idem velle atque idem nolle.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Here, Seneca uses the same observation that Sallust made regarding friendship (in his historical account of the Catilinarian conspiracy, Bellum Catilinae[XX.4]) to define wisdom.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XX: On practicing what you preach, Line 5
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
Songs of the Soul (1971)
Context: Now what should be the relation between science and spirituality? It should be a relation of mutual acceptance and true understanding. It is an act of folly on our part to expect the same truth, the same knowledge and the same power from both science and spirituality. We must not do that. Neither must we set up the same goal for science and spirituality.
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
If women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education. — Plato, The Republic, Book V, trans. Benjamin Jowett, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1892 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0345#hd_lf131.3.head.017 <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: So if we are going to use men and women for the same purposes, they must be taught the same things. The Republic, trans. Desmond Lee [Penguin Classics, 2003, ISBN 0-140-449140-0], p. 161 <br class="br">Variant: Then if we are to use the women for the same things as the men, we must teach them the same things. The Republic, trans. W. H. D. Rouse [Signet Classic, 1999, ISBN 0-451-52745-3], p. 249
