Quotes of: Low-expectations Keyword

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

Rendezvous with Rama

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

Revolution

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

Selected Poems, 1930-1965

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

The Season of Second Chances

Love is a blur. So is this picture. But what do you expect? Murder is fuzzy, like a peach. Yummy!

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

The Shock of the Fall

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.

The Song of the Lark

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

Middlemarch

If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

The Magician King

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

The Map of Lost Memories

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.

The Monk

↑ top up position down ↓ bottom “The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the decay of a community.

Major Themes of the Qur'an

They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.

Magic Slays

You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.

No Mercy

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever…

One Day

Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.

The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days

Nikolai had expected to have to fight the urge to torture the progeny of his father’s murderer, but he had never anticipated fighting the urge to fuck her.

Love Me to Death