#expect

A blanket could be considered part of performance art, if you’re inconsiderate and steal all the covers while we’re asleep—and film me shivering and twitching in the night.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#choice

The boxer had two black eyes. But that’s to be expected, since he was from Africa.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#black-eye #boxer #expectations #africa

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. ↗

— Sharon Creech

#fear #moon

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. ↗

— Alison McGhee

#powerful #silence #silence

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#disappointment #expectation #hope #much #sort

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#expectations #ghostgirl #disappointment

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. ↗

— Julia Glass

#disappointment

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high. ↗