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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Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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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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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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

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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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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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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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I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Expectations Quotes , Miracle Quotes

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

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