#expect

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#expect #forever #hereafter #live #plan

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#apart #beauty #blessing #expectations #object

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#good #good place #hope #place #you

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now. ↗

— David R. Brower

#dollar #expected #future #into #killing

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#experience #maturity #perspective #experience

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#according #been #between #expect #get

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#autos #devices #expect #household #i

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#always #cheerful #exercise #expect #hurry

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer. ↗

— Joel Coen

#bit #different #down #employer #expectations

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#expected #i #limited #little #never