Expectations Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“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.”
– Bryan Singer 

“The Oval Office symbolizes… the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.”
– Andrew Card 

“But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”
– Isoroku Yamamoto 

“Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?”
– Linda Tripp 

“People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.”
– Sri Mulyani Indrawati 

“My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I’d be a missionary nurse in a religious order.”
– Faye Wattleton 

“People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?”
– Linda Tripp 

“The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.”
– Jim Knight 

“So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.”
– Yingluck Shinawatra 

“I’ve made a number of independent films that didn’t receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven’t heard of, and as a result, I’ve conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.”
– William Mapother 

“I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.”
– William Scott 

“With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.”
– John Dramani Mahama 

“Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.”
– James Sullivan

“I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to – what the story’s up to – and I’m giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.”
– John Crowley 

“I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.”
– Lorin Maazel 

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” 
– Sylvia Plath

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” 
– Donald Miller

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” 
– Alexander Pope

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” 
– Bruce Lee

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” 
– Jodi Picoult

“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.” 
– Bill Waterson

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.” 
– Alison McGhee

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.” 
– Patricia McCormick

“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.” 
– Fulton J. Sheen

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” 
– Paulo Coelho

“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” 
– Valery Satterwhite

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations” 
– Jodi Picoult

“Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)” 
– Sarah Breathnack

“I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.” 
– Rachel Cohn

“You can’t expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.” 
– Jeff Kinney

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