Quotes of: Low-expectations Keyword

I am not going to give you disclaimers about what you can expect to find in my story. I went through menopause recently and find I don't much care about anyone's sensibilities anymore. I am called BadSquirrel for a reason. Considering how incredibly ...

Warriors of the Heart

Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate ...

The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

I had a dream about you. Again. In fact I've had so many dreams about you that I can almost feel your skin under my fingertips and your breath every time we kiss. This time when you pulled me closer, even though I couldn’t see you, I knew it was yo...

Dreaming is for lovers

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its ...

Tim Parks

Isaac Davis: You certainly fooled me. [crosstalk] Mary Wilke: What do you mean? Isaac Davis: I mean, I was shocked. 'cause that's not what - this is not what I expected. Mary Wilke: What did you expect? Isaac Davis: I don't know. You said you, you kn...

Manhattan

...She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.

Close Encounters

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

The Charioteer

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective

Dream: Defying Reality Expecting A Miracle! Dare to dream!

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

Cruddy

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Damned

You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Damned

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

The Dude and the Zen Master

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

The Devil and Miss Prym

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

Drive

I help others because I can, not because I expect something in return.

Deadly Reunion

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

A Drink Before the War

She had to be made to understand that she can’t go mouthing off about people and not expect consequences from it.

DayDreamer

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote , I must be dafter than I look.

The Eyre Affair

I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.

Eight's Origin