Quotes by Expectations Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge. Samuel Johnson lightexpectationswaiting I think that if you want help from somebody, you ask. You ask not expecting anyone to give it to you, unless it is a friend or a loved one with whom you should have those expectations, because friends should help friends. Even so, when I ask friends for blurbs or for endorsements or instructions, I always leave room for the fact that they're probably busy and have a million more things to do in their day than give me Ryan Gosling's phone number. Which I've never asked for, just by way of casual example. Sara Benincasa expectationsgivingthinking Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding. Sara Coleridge iceexpectationssmoking Most people have always done better than their parents, and their parents have done pretty well, and there's always been a sense of expectation or entitlement. It's part of being an American in a sense. Rush Limbaugh parentexpectationspeople Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery. Sara Genn expectationsdiscoverychildren Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. Samuel Johnson scarcitygoldexpectations Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation. Sarah Addison Allen chocolate-ice-creammagicexpectations Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt. Sarah Addison Allen hurtexpectationsway I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world." Sarah Ban Breathnach actingexpectationsletting-go Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment. Samuel Johnson disappointmentendsexpectations Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. Samuel Johnson powerexpectationsinspirational No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson vanityhopeexpectations I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane. Sarah Ruhl expectationsfallthinking I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism -- who, what, where, when, and why -- of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us. Sarah communicationexpectationssorry He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation. Samuel Johnson moraldisappointmentexpectations We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy. Rush Limbaugh expectationstalkinggiving I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better. Scott Snyder wickedexpectationsnight Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more. Scott Adams expectationsjobsfunny If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations. Scott Tinley mercyraceexpectations We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke. Samuel Johnson sinkingflamesexpectations«6566676869707172737475»
