#expect

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. ↗

— John Ortberg

#expectation-s #leadership #art

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #expectations #judgement #religion #selfrighteousness

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#law #order #respect #respect

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#expectations #hopes #dreams

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#nothing

In a lightning-fast move, he placed both of his hands on the brick wall, caging me with his body. He leaned toward me and my heart shifted into a gear I didn't know existed. His warm breath caressed my neck, melting my frozen skin. I tilted my head, waiting for the solid warmth of his body on mine. I could see his eyes again and those dark orbs screamed hunger . "I heard a rumor." "What's that?" I struggled to get out. "It's your birthday." Terrified speaking would break the spell, I licked my suddenly dry lips and nodded. "Happy birthday." Noah drew his lips closer to mine; that sweet musky smell overwhelmed my senses. I could almost taste his lips when he unexpectedly took a step back, inhaling deeply. The cold air slapped me into the land of sober. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#noah-hutchins #swoons #unexpected

Nice tree," he says. That boy has unexpected depth. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#tucker-avery #unexpected

And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. ↗

— Jean Ferris

#unexpected

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#unexpected

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#unexpected