“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Is it easy? No it ain’t Can I fix it? No I cain’t But I sure ain’t gonna take it lyin’ down” — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more. — Bruce Oldfield Copy Share Image
I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. — David Hume Copy Share Image
People's Say That Never Expect Anything From Others. But The Fact Is When We Really Like Someone We Do Expect Something Of… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Never blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them. Expectations always lead you to being disappointed. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Looking for perfection in a person brings too much expectations. When your expectations are not met, too many disappointments come. Learn to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations.… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Compared to Alia, it's little more difficult for Shaheen, as she has a famous father and a famous sibling, too. So, I… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol,… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
“I Am Just Me I am just me, that's all I want to be. If I don't meet your expectations, I'm sorry.… — Ray Price BIlly Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. — Edward de Bono 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
I try to keep up to my producers' expectations. Sometimes, I can; sometimes, I cannot. — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
Life is filled with surprises, you just have to cut down your expectations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
