#expect

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#noah #truth #wisdom #expectations

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#everything #expect #expected #nothing #obedience

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#friendship #betrayal

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it. ↗

— George Benson

#doing #everyday #expect #get #i

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#expectation #letters #packaged

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#expected #i #living #me #people

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. ↗

— Mark Twain

#cannot #expected #fit #his #hole

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#because #bit #expect #fun #having

It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#back #case #did #done #e-mail

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#any #expectations #had #i #never