348 quotes found
“Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected”
“I notice you didnt include a blade with your new attire, Royce said. Not even a little jeweled dagger.Lords no. Albert looked appalled. I dont fight.I thought all nobles learned sword fighting. Roy...”
“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 the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.”
“Its scary when its real. When its not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.”
“One of the reasons the team on NCIS works so well-is that they live by their leader's rules-which are not a secret .What are your rules/standards? Do the people in your life know what they are? Do ...”
“I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.”
“Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.”
“Love is a choice. That's why love it's one of gods commandments. People love because they trust. People trust because of faith. Love does have expectations. What we expect by love is eternity. We e...”
“People aren't always who they seem, Detective. Am I anything like you thought?""No," I admitted. You're a million times better than I could have imagined.”
“Expectations are made to be exceeded!”
“We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.”
“She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.”
“All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be hap...”
“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
“Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?”
“...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it”
“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”
“Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar.”
“And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.”
“It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.”
