Expectations externally mean nothing. They shouldn't mean anything to anybody. — Tyrese Haliburton Copy Share Image
“What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations. — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention. — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Ladies, a man is not a Good Man because he always does what what you tell him to do (sorry), he's a… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“Success never quite meets your highest expectations, and failure is never as devastating as you feared. The truth is, things are rarely… — Brian Reese Copy Share Image
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Nobody really knows how I fight or what I'm capable of. Nobody has high expectations for me. I get to go out… — Johny Hendricks Copy Share Image
An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
At Leeds, it was to stay up. I was such a young player, Leeds were my club, and we didn't do it.… — James Milner Copy Share Image
The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Inevitably it's always a set-up; you go somewhere, bring your own expectations, you think you have an idea of what you want… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I still work that expectation/disappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle… which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image