T. S. Eliot Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Expectations Quotes

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

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Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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