Oscar Wilde Quotes, Future Quotes, Expectations Quotes

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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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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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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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

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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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Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

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

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

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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

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(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.

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

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

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