Expectations Quotes

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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. — Norton Juster
I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally… — David Levithan
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the… — Jodi Picoult
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) Thereâ€™s no such thing as a gift. If I were… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. — Simone Elkeles
It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our… — Alain de Botton
We all think weâ€™re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations arenâ€™t met. But sometimes our expectations sell… — Shonda Rhimes
I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must… — Kirsten Miller
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you. — Jeff Kinney
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) — Elizabeth Gilbert
But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined… — Jodi Picoult
Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime.… — Carrie Fisher
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard… — Jane Goodall
Expectation is the root of all heartache. — William Shakespeare
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your lifeâ€™s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists… — Charles Dickens
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A… — Wassily Kandinsky
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. — Robin Hobb
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the… — Joan Didion

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