Expectations Quotes

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest py...

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So w...

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best ...

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams." - George Weasly

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's la...

And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursui...

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

One must not expect every thing.

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you'v...

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than ev...

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you ...

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased...

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole....

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see wh...

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, beca...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools ex...

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that peopl...

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to...

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, ...

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but loca...

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one ...

But he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from wh...

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of ...

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I h...

You can't eat straight A's.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that t...

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever ...

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I ...

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on ...

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up ...

You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is...

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expect...

What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you ...

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to...

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to...

Prospect is often better than possession.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they e...

High expectations are the key to everything.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

I hope to work support my children and die quietly without pain.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug...

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

They had been there. I had seen my mother’s anxious face, desperate to catch my eye and give me a wa...

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this th...

The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mo...

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is h...

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense...

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, nea...

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough...

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Prospect is often better than possession.

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For t...

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much ...

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long tim...

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for...