Quotes About Expectation

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

They want words. They want contact. They want pictures and autographs. Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Billy offers small hums of agreement and waits for the momma-logue to wind down.

Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.

Um cínico disse uma vez a G.K. Chesterton, o romancista e ensaísta britânico: "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois não ficará decepcionado." A réplica de Chesterton? "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois se deliciará com tudo.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.

Of course, wonders can be accomplished with the right individual selections, bought at the right levels, and later sold after a huge rise and before the probable decline. But the average investor can no more expect to accomplish this than to find money growing on trees.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It

One piece had been titled "Expectant Silence" and consisted of a man sitting at the piano, playing nothing.

Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect.

Sharpe did not expect them to provide an answer, but he wanted them to think through the steps, to know the argument, so that when he provided the solution, they would agree.

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Man schätzt das Alter schwer, das man noch nicht hinter sich hat oder auf sich zukommen sieht.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly.

Domestic animals expect food when they see the person who usually feeds them. We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Only impatience prompts the belief in the possibility of sudden improvement.

I have no choices left to me at all. I shall marry my cousin, sire children, and do all that is expected of me.

We're getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has to offer? Is this it? All we can expect? If so, someone out there needs to feel sorry for us.