#expect

The wall of silence that exists between us is as long as the Great Wall of China. And though it’s the same length, our wall is about two bricks quieter.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

A brick could be used like ice cream. But hold up, hold up. Let me put a bowl under it before you start licking, or else you’ll drip brick all over my blanket.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#disappointed #expectations #film #good #pleasantly

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#art #beck #call #drop #employers

Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they cannot measure up to excessive expectations. The actual can never attain the imagined: for to think perfection is easy, but to embody it is most difficult. The imagination weds the wish, and together they always conjure up more than reality can furnish. For however great may be a person's virtues, the will never measure up to what was imagined. When people see themselves cheated in their extravagant anticipations, they turn more quickly to disparagement than to praise. Hope is a great falsifier of the truth; the the intelligence put her right by seeing to it that the fruit is superior to its appetite. You will make a better exit when the actual transcends the imagined, and is more than was expected. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#art

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish. ↗

— Plautus

#frequently #happen #more #than #things

If you bring the blanket, I’ll bring the warmth.
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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 can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies. ↗

— Richard Price

#character #confines #creativity #expect #go

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#having #otherwise #problem #problems #thinking

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. ↗

— Dora Russell

#co-operation #common #common good #competitiveness #expect