Top 1200 High Expectations Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

We want to play a great a role as possible in making sure this country lives up to the expectations.

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

But, once again, when I said I'm so grateful for my mom just being adamant about me staying in public school - that is what allowed me to be exposed to so many different types of people. I went to a high school that was by the beach. I elected to do bussing my junior high school years. And my first year of high school, I would take the bus from my neighborhood to the beach schools. And at those schools, you had such a mix of so many types of kids.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate as high as some of the high-concept, big-idea, big-swing things that get the critics really excited.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

I'm not setting too many expectations for myself. I'm just trying to create opportunities for something interesting.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.

I think it's good to sort of push people's expectations a little bit. I've always been doing that.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

It is an advantage to be born in Kapoor family and to be known by that name, but it also a burden because there are lots of expectations from you.

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

One thing that did happen to me, though - in high school, there was a club to help prepare people for scholarships and they wouldn't let girls take the class. But I studied for it, and that year I was the only one from the high school who got the scholarship. That was my vindication.

Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

Despite popular belief that watermelon is made up of only water and sugar, watermelon is actually a nutrient-dense food with a high amount of vitamins such as A and C, minerals such as iron and calcium, and is high in antioxidants.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

I've said it lots of times before, I play for myself, so I'm not worried about other people's expectations.

There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.

The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

I'm going to rely upon the advice of affordable housing experts to make sure we meet the public's expectations.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for teenagers they actually are that high. I think you really are dealing in a world of tremendous cruelty and intensity, and YA gives truth to that.

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.