Charles Dickens Quotes, People Quotes, Expectations Quotes

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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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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

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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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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

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

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

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

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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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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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

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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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

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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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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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