Quotes of: Low-expectations Keyword

Rooster Cogburn: [after singing for a long time] That was "Johnny in the Low Ground." There are very few fiddle tunes I have not heard. Once heard they are locked in my mind forever. It is a sadness to me that I have sausage fingers that cannot crowd...

True Grit

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It seems, however, I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the living dead. But not me. I'm negative. It's official. And once the pain goes away, ...

Trainspotting

Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. S...

Ambrose Bierce

I sail through life with great trust in my heart. Whoever stains and breaks that trust will be in a cold water best left behind. I felt the cold breeze of monetary means through the low ethics of money driven minds. I securely docked in a shore I cal...

Angelica Hopes

Deep down, I have come to the conclusion that the reason (children) are such a low priority to the great human institutions that seek to control this world, both secular and Christian, is that an invisible battle, a spiritual war, rages over each and...

Wess Stafford

...People so often ignored their gut because of social niceties and expectations. Luckily Dax didn't have that issue; he was barely fucking civilized.

Chasing Danger

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.

The Coming Storm

Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the air, not even birds sang.

Coexist

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

A Dom is Forever

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

The Darkest Minds

Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.

Darkling

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

The Daughter of Time

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by that time.

Don'ts for Wives

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

Eleanor & Park

It says 'Bet you were expecting a heart, shaped like a compass...'" Jack paused and pulled the note off the bow tie. "...And then he drew a frowny face.

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