Expectations Quotes

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

~ Louise Nevelson

There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

~ Ovid

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football.

~ Anonymous

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

~ Henry Kissinger

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

~ Anonymous

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

~ George Eliot

Prospect is often better than possession.

~ Thomas Fuller

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

~ Sir John Sucking

Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.

~ Charlotte Brontë

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

~ Michel De Montaigne

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

~ Anonymous

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

~ Maurice Setter

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

~ Ellen Sue Stern

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

~ General William Sherman

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.

~ Abraham Lincoln

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

~ General William T. Sherman

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

In combat life is short nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier he is concerned with his literal life chances.

~ Charles E. Moskos

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

~ Karl Von Clausewitz

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

~ James Jones

Moderation in war is imbecility.

~ Admiral John Fisher

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

~ Stephen Hawking

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

~ Willa Cather

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

~ Teddy Pendergrass

We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

~ Pierre Corneille

Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

~ Jan De Hartog

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

~ Eugène Delacroix

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

~ Margaret Titzel

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

~ Plutarch

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

~ Winston Churchill

There's no map there's no master plan there's just people.

~ Stingray

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

~ Joseph Heller

Men expect too much do too little.

~ Allen Tate

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

~ Michael Haneke

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

~ Danny Boyle

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

~ Kevin Smith