#expectation

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#floats #forth #hope #image #onto

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#curse #diminishes #dreams #end #expectation

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#blow #expectations #i #top #want

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. ↗

— Theresa May

#expectation #get #how #in the past #know

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#away #believe #best #continued #expectations

But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#continues #expectation #i #success #then

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years. ↗

— John Mica

#administrator #after #approved #been #choices

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed. ↗

— Terrell Owens

#disappointed #expectations #never #reality #will

I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#actually #admire #anyone #beats #career

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amount #audience #communicating #denying #exist