Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! – No Excuses!

We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the...

Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things

Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.

She was heavier than he expected – women always are.

Don’t expect everyone to admire this world is made up of hate and fire.

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence —...

A man does not care if somebody loves him or not. All he wants is to be understood.

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but...

I promise, when you always expect the worst, you will not be disappointed.

Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn’t do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

People aren’t always who they seem, Detective. Am I anything like you thought?””No,” I admitted. You’re a million times better than I could have imagined.

One always expects something else.

You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’...

but what people expect can change you in the end.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people’s expectations dreadfully.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.

Don’t let what your parents do disappoint you.

Cathy, don’t look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn’t mean we aredoomed. Let’s go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of...

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any...

Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time you’re twenty-five, you’ll have good reason to be ashamed’; ‘if you...

Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time he came up blank. It was like watching someone digging where they knew they’d buried something...

The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one’s new beau consistently failing to meet...

We are all made good and positive declaration about the year 2015. We are all expecting breakthroughs in our lives, new things to happen to give us life changing. Guess what my friends, nothing is...

Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith.But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the...

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Free yourself from the expectations of having to be right with the wrong information.

Perfection in any field does not come from dreaming to be perfect, yet from allowing your brain to trust the actions of your body and your body to trust the knowledge of your brain.

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?””To...

I was always here for you,you knew you could count on me and trust me blindly, and you knew that I would never tell you a lie or do anything that would hurt you. My...

Don’t assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

No wonder women don’t negotiate as often as men. It’s like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let...

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung...

Your attitudes, action, reactions and expectations are harboured in the power of your thoughts. Think positively and you will smile at the harvest time.

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

I’ve always liked rooms where the party hasn’t started yet…I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there’s usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn’t...

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are...

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any...

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than...

Jesus’ love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

If you don’t get disappointed when you raise your expectations; you don’t get appointments from where your mind is not!

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in...

…You don’t always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. … Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be...