#expect

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

#expect #happen #strangely #things #you

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#expectations #poison #anger

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#desire #expectations #fear #mystery #art

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#expectations #art

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre. ↗

— Howard Barker

#aware #dramatists #element #expect #far

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#expectation #innocence #sadness #war #change

The worst place anyone can start on is “wrong expectations ↗

— Ngina Otiende

#wrong-expectations #change

A blanket could be used to represent my feelings for you. I think it’s slightly more communicative than me giving you a scrap of paper with a doodle of an erect penis. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

You see what you expect to see, Severus. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#what-goes-around-comes-around #death

Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day....Damn them, they are wrong. They are insane. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#government #rebellion #status-quo #war #dreams