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Quotes About Expectations

How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'll see the sprouts in the morning when you wake up from sleep, and with glee look at the way the bright sun, I'll see it...And then I have no more desire for others the whole day. Everything, everything is covered with these expectations.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Girls are always so keen to review [3525] Whether one's virtuous, and sticks to the rules. They think if a man can be led, he'll follow too.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bu durumda olan yaln?zca ben de?ilim. Bütün insanlar umutlar?nda kand?r?l?yor, beklentilerinde aldat?l?yorlar.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
~ Joan Lunden
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.
~ Julie Anne Peters
I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.
~ Albert Einstein
You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
~ Brian Wilson
I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.
~ Hedy Lamarr
And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.
~ Jack Dee
It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.
~ Jean Arthur
They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
~ Jewel
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
~ Michael Jordan
The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
~ Michelangelo
I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control.
~ Pete Wilson
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
~ Oscar Wilde