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“Meanwhile she's coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She's definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.She escorts me to a table full of people and presents me. She int...”
“No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.”
“Besides, what's in a name? Actually, a lot. Whether taken from a parent or grandparent, some saint, or even the late great Elvis, your name insists another person's dream of what you should have be...”
“they saythey only wantflowersto grow frommy mouth,so i willlook themdeadin theeyeas ishovesoft petalspastmy lips,chewwithmy jawcompletelyunhinged,& spitthemdownattheir feet-i will never be your exp...”
“Expectations. Strong belief something will happen in the future.Pressure. A motivator. A positive. An indicator you are in the right place.”
“Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.”
“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend t...”
“Keep your expectation with God only, not with Human.”
“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”
“When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle.”
“Dont help anybodys expectation of you to grow. Dont even give them a hint that you will fulfill it. Whatsoever suffering you pass through, be ready to pass through it, but dont allow others to have...”
“People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.”
“It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato...”
“If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.”
“Don't let others expectations direct the course of your life.”
“I had never seen anything like New York, and its newness held the promise of my future: dense with the experience I craved - romantic, urbane, intellectual. Looking back on that moment, I believe I...”
“To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.”
“Dont expect miracles why you have not done anything.”
“Don't you wannabe agreat baseball player? He sighed back into the wall. I want to be a great man, Fielding. And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Grand, ho...”
“Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a persons glamorous expectations.”
