Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.
The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.
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.
