Quotes about expectation

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“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.”

“See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.”

“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”

“Did you pick that out?" I asked Dimitri. Honestly, I would have expected him to bend a piece of steel with his bare hands and present her with that.”

“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”

“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.”

“God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?”

“I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.”

“Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?”
“I… had trouble concentrating.”
“So you came up on deck,” Jasnah said, “to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this toyour concentration?”

“to hope was to expect”

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”

“Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.”

“Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.”

“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game… You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”

“I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger.
It would perk up my day.”

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”

“Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that.
“That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?”
“Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.”

“never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's…”

“Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.”

“She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.”

“You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.”

“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”

“Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.”

“Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.”

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

“You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.”

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?

No.

It's never like what you expected.

Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.”

“Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?"

Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.”

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

(, 8 September 1935)”

“To those who are given much, much is expected.”

“SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.”

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”

“Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.”

“We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.”

“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”

“… when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free. To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.”

“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”

“This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.”

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”

“Expectation. is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.”

“For all those who believe, expect a miracle.”

“There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.”

“I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.”

“This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house."
"What did you expect?"
"I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous, mind-blowing sex with me.”

“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”

“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”

“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise”

“Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”

“You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

“Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.”

“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”

“I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.”

“Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.”

“Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.”

“Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.”

“If only I can find him… the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?”

“You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly…. You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.”

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”

“To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.

To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.”

“Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.”

“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”

“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”

“What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.”

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”

“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.”

“If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.”

“You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

“He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.”

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”

“Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.”

“The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything… doing unselfishly.”

“It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.”

“It was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby.”

“I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.”

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

“.. that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”

“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”

“I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him… to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good…”

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”

“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”

“The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?”

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

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”

“Why is she so stubborn? And disobedient?” Cameron barked a laugh. “Because Mackenzies always choose headstrong women. You didn’t really expect her to obey you, did you? No matter what the marriage vows say?”

“Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.”

“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.”

“Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.”

“Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.”

“I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.”

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”