Horace Quotes, Life Quotes, Expectations Quotes

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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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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We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

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Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

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

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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

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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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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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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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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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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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I'm the master of low expectations.

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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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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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