Expectations Quotes

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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened… — Sharon Creech
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has… — C.S. Lewis
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure… — Italo Calvino
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. — Michael Crichton
Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for… — William P. Young
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. — Emily Dickinson
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not. — Guy Finley
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy… — Guy Finley
Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her… — Candace Bushnell
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me.… — Chris Crutcher
At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the… — Shirley Hazzard
Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated. — Luanne Rice
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines… — Ursula K. Le Guin
[...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would… — Catherine Anderson
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine
I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not… — Frederick Salomon Perls
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with… — Ilona Andrews

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