Best 2005 quotes in «expectations quotes» category

Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him.

Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so Lacanian and, like, mirrored, so as to be ridiculous. But there are very fixed sets of expectations that the world has about this work.

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

Expectations determine outcome, always!

Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.