Expectations Quote by Mary Collyer Download Open image “How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!” — Mary Collyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expectations Loaded Tedious Time Waiting Wings
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked. — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. — Ovid Copy Share Image
What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too.… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die. — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind;… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb. — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end. — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs. — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger,… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.” — Steven Redhead 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 not of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
