#expect

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. ↗

— Ben Sweetland

#car #come #expect #far #fountain

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. ↗

— David Swift

#expecting #find #look #people #surely

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. ↗

— Tacitus

#angry #any #anyone #apt #cause

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. ↗

— Amy Tan

#childhood #difficult #expect #had #having

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. ↗

— Amy Tan

#expected #get #had #high #high expectations

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#arbitrary #cannot #designs #expected #last

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#belt #consumer #conveyor #couple #days

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#bite #challenge #different #expecting #people

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure. ↗

— James Taylor

#expect #failure #foolish #forever #go