Expectations Quotes - Page 35

People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine." But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.

All of us can meet God's high expectations.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!

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.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

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.

But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

The start of my rookie season when there was so much pressure, so many expectations, and so much excitement surrounding the return of the No. 3 to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and then we went out and won the pole for the Daytona 500. That was a very special moment.

[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.