Quotes About Expectation

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.

To expect more, be more.

Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.

The ideal is the enemy of the real.

Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.

Don't give a gift with the expectation to get, but if you have a gift, always try to give.

Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal

Never expect anything without being prepared to give.

It is winter--the best time to dream of spring.

Before you expect anything, try to give something.

Expect abundance to receive abundance.

A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode, but you just don't know when.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.