Quotes About Expectation

Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse.

A fundamental feature of the symptom coherence model of symptom production is the recognition that the suffering due to a functional symptom is actually the lesser of two evils - the other, greater evil being the suffering that is unconsciously expected from not having the symptom.

The majority of famous men are not taken unawares by fame. On the wall of their minds hangs their own vision of what they ought to be and can be. They are not surprised by success when it comes; because they have seen it coming, and planned out its coming, in their dreams.

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You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.

Women claim that what they look for in a man is a sense of humor, but I don't believe it. Who do you want removing your bra–Tom Cruise or the Three Stooges?

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Love heals violence and all its sources. Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

Now stop your dancing; you wouldn't come out and dance when I played to you.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

the thunder has sounded--but who knows where the rain's going to fall.

Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought I was prepared, but when it happened I fell apart. That's when I realized I'd been hanging on to the hope, however slim, that as long as she was alive she might somehow get better.

a privileged class never surrenders its tyranny, neither can it be expected that the capitalists of this age will give up their rulership without being forced to do it….

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

A week earlier I'd been locked into the idea that the Redskins would win easily -- but when Nixon came out for them and George Allen began televising his prayer meetings I decided that any team with both God and Nixon on their side was fucked from start.