Dashed Expectations Quotes

#1. What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?

Dejan Stojanovic

#2. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.

E.L. James

#3. A customer facing crucial decisions:
What should I wipe myself with? What should I brush with? His personal hygiene was deteriorating rapidly as he stared at the rows of possibilities, sweating profusely. Would he ever bathe again?

Benson Bruno

#4. Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

Amit Ray

#5. The sky wasn't the limit - the only limits were the ones we imposed upon ourselves.

Nicole Williams

#6. Dashed Expectations Do Not Mean The End Of God's Will

Andy Bonikowsky

#7. For the wagons that bear grain to the whole of mankind without any moral basis for their action may most cold-bloodedly exclude an important part of mankind from the enjoyment of what they bear, something that has already happened ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.

Max Lucado

#9. What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?

Bryant McGill

#10. God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

Michael Cunningham

#11. I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ.

Jane Green

#12. It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is eternally alone, is horrible.

Aleister Crowley

#13. It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

#14. You are making me something, cow-woman, or is that just make believe and pretend, like your sex life?'
'I'm making you a gag, Mickey, so I can knit in fucking peace.

Amy Lane

#15. When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Daymond John

#16. Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Mary Douglas

#17. I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

Mindy Kaling

#18. Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

Josh Radnor