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Letter "E" » expectation
«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.»
Author: Cate Blanchett
(Actress)
| Keywords:
be on, brink, disappointment, excitement, expectation, Great Expectations, My Way
«High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
achievement, expectation, framework, in a higher place, to a higher place
«Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.»
Author: Dr. Robert Anthony
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
come to, Ever After, expectation, external, externals, happily, Happily Ever After, outside, rescue, rescues, rescuing
«Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bankruptcy, disappointment, expectation, expend, expended, expending, expends, sort, sort of
«Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion»
Author: Florence Nightingale
(Humanitarian, Nurse)
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, exertion, expectation, patient, surprise, uncertainty
«It is important not to have the unrealistic expectation that we will find a magic key to help get rid of all suffering. It takes determination, patience, and more than one week.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
expectation, get rid of, rid, rid of, unrealistic
«How can people hold these opinions? What joy can we find in the expectation of nothing but hopeless misery? What reason for boasting that we are in impenetrable darkness? And how can it happen that the following argument occurs to a reasonable man?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
boasting, expectation, hopeless, impenetrable, occurs, Reasonable man
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
casket, caskets, dependence, despairing, expectation, faint, formerly, groped, grope for, groping, inevitably, in darkness, lock, locked, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, Silas, slight, stirring
«It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
cures, disappointed, disappointment, effect, exclamation, expectation, expects, other than, peevish, producing, sentence
«He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.»
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