Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Morton

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Leonard Cohen

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

Lou Holtz

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

Lord Kelvin

I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.

Joseph Murphy

Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Juan Manuel Santos

I don't like to generate too many expectations.

Oswald Spengler

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Kathy Acker

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

June Jordan

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

Maggie Stiefvater

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

Macklemore

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

Greg Behrendt

If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn't follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he's okay with disappointing you.

Lupe Fiasco

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

Mark Shields

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

Marilynne Robinson

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

Edith Evans

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Jonathan Kozol

I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations

Jonathan Dimbleby

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

Richard Baxter

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

Roz Savage

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

Richard DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Rachael Taylor

The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.

Paulo Coelho

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

R. A. Salvatore

We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

Nathaniel Branden

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

Veronica Roth

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

Rene Descartes

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.

Robert J. Shiller

Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

Robin Thicke

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

Samuel Johnson

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.