348 quotes found
“The lower your expectation the easier and happier your life will be”
“Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..”
“Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.”
“Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.”
“The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for ...”
“As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.”
“Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in bu...”
“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.”
“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am me. And if by chance we find ea...”
“Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.”
“People tend to want to live up to their friends high regard.”
“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, it's our own expectations that...”
“My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.”
“Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.”
“I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?”
“If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?”
“To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.”
“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.”
“My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.”
“Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective”
