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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
For my teen years and all of my twenties it felt like I was trying to live up to this expectation of being a man and what that meant - not just what clothes I wore, but how I acted.
When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.
I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere.
The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.
Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.
Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.
I know nobody likes practice, nobody enjoys it, but you have to build some type of excitement and expectation and learn something.
You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.
As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.
Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.
The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.
The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges.
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.
Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
We're very lucky in England: everything's very structured. But in India you have to deal with chaos, and I think that helps dealing with expectation.
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
I'm always going to give my fans a realistic expectation and let them know that if you think I'm never gonna make a mistake again, go find another YouTuber.
My only expectation, which I tell my kids very, very often, is that they follow their heart.
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.
When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived up exactly to that.
The more you play, the more people's expectation increases.
If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
When you play for Liverpool, there's always pressure, pressure to perform, expectation. Of course, that's the reason why you want to go there.
We hope to win over new listeners who would normally never listen to an Aly & AJ record. That's our greatest expectation we've set for ourselves.
My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
