I think there comes a time when you start dropping expectations. Because the world doesn't owe you anything, and you don't owe… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever… — Alma Alexander Copy Share Image
Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency.… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day,… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are… — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
If you come from a family like Gandhi family, people have high expectations. He needed to perform. I wish Rahul could have… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If I hope for four or five sacks, and I only get two or three, that's still a good week for me,… — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time… — Daniel Baldwin Copy Share Image
We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of… — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Life has taught me to live with no expectations, but with ambition, to love with no boundaries, but with full force and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, who have the same aspirations… — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
There are so many levels of understanding and experience when it comes to this thing we call love. In our human relationships,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
What's great about being an opener is that even when you lose, you win. There's no pressure. And no expectations. If you… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
I try not to think about anyone's expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought… — Anwar Hadid Copy Share Image
The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“need to know about disappointment: Disappointment is unmet expectations, and the more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment. The way… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“I've stopped bothering getting my hopes up and watching them die when all of it's just in my head. I expect nothing… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
