I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.
If true acts of worship must be sincere without expecting anything, it should not need to be able to offer the promise of anything
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.
The measure of life is not by success you achieve, but by the donation you made without expectation to receive.
A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.
