Quotes About Expectation

Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects.

If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

Love is likely when you appreciate someone in every moments of your heartbeat and expecting nothing in return. nothing at all.

You're not what I expected in a pirate."He laughed, curtly. "You're not what I expected in a princess.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

Don't count your chickens before they turn into KFC

It's funny how, no matter what we have in life, we're never satisfied.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.

Life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.