#expectation

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that. ↗

— Pat Boone

#behavior #consequences #embodies #even #expectations

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#expectations #integrity #maintain #people #way

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ↗

— Frances Burney

#contentment #curb #diminish #enjoyment #expectation

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#marriage #relationships #beauty

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

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens. ↗

— Ville Valo

#because #better #big #expectations #flow

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#any #expectations #failure #i #level

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' ↗

— Peter Drucker

#clerks #companies #computers #employment #even

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations. ↗

— John M. Ford

#audience #deliberately #dislike #expectations #goes

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ↗

— Voltaire

#expectation #live #living #never