Quotes About Expectations

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.