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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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

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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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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Hope Quotes , Expectations Quotes

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

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

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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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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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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Future Quotes , Expectations Quotes

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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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fall Quotes , Expectations Quotes

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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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

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

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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

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Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

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