The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
Eli Khamarov
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What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Masque of Pandora--In the Garden (pt. VIII)
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I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail;
and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting
bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was
his favorite expression.
Charles Dickens
Quotes , Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XI)
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I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
Frederick Perls
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
A. A. Milne
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Fritz Perls
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston
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Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
John Burroughs
Quotes , Source: Waiting
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
[Motto of Vraibleusia.]
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes , Source: Popanilla (ch. VII)
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He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes , Source: Tancred (bk. III, ch. VI)
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Since yesterday I have been in Alcala.
Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,
When that dull distance shall no more divide us;
And I no more shall scale thy wall by night
To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3)
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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be
disappointed.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: in a letter to Gay
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
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I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at III, ii)
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Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Julius Caesar (Marullus at I, i)
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Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of
expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in
the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is
quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable;
performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great
sickness in his judgment that makes it.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Painter at V, i)
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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the
figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered
expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Messenger at I, i)
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'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
Sir John Suckling
Quotes , Source: Against Fruition
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