Expectations Quotes

Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love's cosmic kiln. That's the great gift, no matter where it leads.

~ Jeff Brown

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

~ Arthur Nersesian

Charles Williams loved his son with reservations, complaining that a child is a guest of a somewhat inconsistent temperament, rather difficult to get rid of, almost pushing; a poor relation rather than a pleasant kind.

~ Philip Zaleski

Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any.

~ Dan Groat

Collectively, as a people, we have to upgrade our standards and expectations of our political leaders and ourselves, hold them and our own selves accountable for the promises we make, and insist on specifics – projects, deadlines, processes, funds to be committed, and follow-up! Otherwise, we will continue to be dribbled and deceived, and nothing would get done.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

Love assumes expectation and hope. All actors of the hazardous pursuit of love eagerly look forward to passing a significant cape without injuries or aching scratches: the Cape of good Hope. ( Those journeys of love )

~ Erik Pevernagie

And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing.

~ C.s. Lewis

It is almost impossible for contemporaries to judge the true value of discoveries, or to give the proper position to the men of their own time who make these discoveries. The Surgeon-General of the Public Health Service expected the greatest results to flow from his commission of medical officers, but the conclusions of the Board turned out to be all wrong, while he did not notice the report from his own subordinate, Dr. H. R. Carter, which turned out to be pure gold and was one of the great steps in establishing the true method of the transmission of Yellow Fever.

~ William Crawford Gorgas

...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.

~ Katarina Bivald

Her family was counting on her—to be responsible, to get good grades, to follow the rules, to be the good example. And more important, she expected those things of herself.

~ Michelle Madow

Upholders may struggle in situations where expectations aren't clear or the rules aren't established. They may feel compelled to meet expectations, even ones that seem pointless. They may feel uneasy when they know they're breaking the rules, even unnecessary rules, unless they work out a powerful justification to do so.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Audiences = expectations. If he thinks you're not watching, he won't need to rebel against your expectations.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Real love when it comes, it doesn't look like anything you'd expect.

~ Queer As Folk

Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome.It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.

~ Joyce Wycoff

She realized she'd been thinking for years that she would not truly be pleased until she'd checked off this last achievement on her list, but one of the dangers of such thinking is that the event one hopes for never quite lives up to the expectation.

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

~ Lena Dunham

She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you’re inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he’d sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.

~ James Dashner

Creepy is being attached to an outcome. If you approach someone with the goal of sex, and hten find thins not going in that direction, you may try to steer things back to sex. This is creepy.

~ Allison Moon

Life is an art of managing conflicts—conflicts between our expectations and perceptions. It is like a tightrope walk. We load our expectations from life on one end of the bar and our perceptions about life on other, and move on the rope, relying on the balance of the stick. Overload, on any end, can fling us down, ruining the remaining journey. Some might survive such falls through repeated mood swings or with emotional breakdowns, while some might go down, diving deep into the bottom of depression.

~ Hari Parameshwar

The person who does not meet God’s expectations has no right to expect God’s blessings.

~ Sunday Adelaja

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

~ Paige Toon

Living up to other people's expectations, limits your potential. You'll either find they are unreasonably high, or set so low you should consider it an insult. Only you should determine how far you're prepared to go and what you'll do to get there. And no one can lay claim when you achieve success. Don't worry about meeting the standard when you are the standard

~ Carlos Wallace

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

~ Tom Clancy

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations.

~ Kim Gordon

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

~ Dianna Hardy

Daniel: So, how are you?Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?

~ Maria Malonzo

Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, for their chivalry and valour, for the fact that they negotiated treaties, ruled India, controlled finance; finally for an attitude towards herself which no woman could fail to feel or to find agreeable, something trustful, childlike, reverential; which an old woman could take from a young man without loss of dignity, and woe betide the girl––pray Heaven it was none of her daughters!––who did not feel the worth of it, and all that it implied, to the marrow of her bones!

~ Virginia Woolf

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

~ Sriveena Dhagavkar

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

~ T.f. Hodge

But he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest, disillusioned in the matter of art, she might at the same time be disillusioned in the greater matter of love.

~ Marcel Proust

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

~ Sriveena Dhagavkar

I promise, when you always expect the worst, you will not be disappointed.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

~ Sriveena Dhagavkar

Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time he came up blank. It was like watching someone digging where they knew they'd buried something precious, digging and digging and realizing that whatever it was--was gone. But they kept digging just the same, because the idea of losing it was so terrible and because maybe.Maybe.He was that lost treasure. He was that maybe. And he hated it. That was the secret he was trying to keep from them, the one he was always fearing he would betray.

~ Cassandra Clare

My life belongs only to me.I let go of all the expectationsthat others have of me.My life doesn’t belongto anybody, except to meand to Life itself.

~ Human Angels

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

~ Emily P. Freeman

We expect miracles from love but love has only itself to give.

~ Marty Rubin

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

~ Laurence Overmire