#expect

Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#been #better #define #democrats #effort

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#get #involved #living #make #mind

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#fully #happen #life #miracle #only

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#atmosphere #expectancy #miracles

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ↗

— Confucius

#diligence #expectations #first #his #life

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person. ↗

— Tom Walsh

#attitude #expectations #happiness #life #living

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#fancy #grow #grow up #happens #i

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#album #beatles #changes #decade #depending

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#better #come #everything #expect #give