Expectation And Reality Quotes

#1. Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

John C. Maxwell

#2. God will NEVER give YOU something SOMEBODY ELSE is supposed to have

Tyrese Gibson

#3. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Nenia Campbell

#4. There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

Mitch Albom

#5. The best way is to accept the reality for what you have rather than to run after or curse the reality for what you don't have ... Respect, love and care those who are with you !!!!!!!

Anonymous

#6. Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

Hector Berlioz

#7. Tea-
The sweetness of love,
The fragrance of flowers,
The comfort of a friend,
The warmth of a hug
-Such great delight gingerly poured from a single pink teapot.

Zakiyya Rosebelle

#8. That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

Susan Sontag

#9. In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Expectation creates the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#11. But when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.

Eric Ambler

#12. Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

Pope Francis

#13. That's why when Peter started talking to me in homeroom this morning, i soaked up his attention like a doughnut dipped in coffee. The fact that his comments have left me soggy and wilted doesn't matter. That's the price you pay when you withdraw to the safety of anonymity

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#14. How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.

Armistead Maupin

#15. Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not ready for it." That goes against the fundamental principle.

Sakyong Mipham

#17. I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

Ellen Page

#18. Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep among strangers, that familiarity, those memories, those ties kept us going; gave us a reason to persevere; toughened us up.

Carlos Wallace

#19. It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

Emily Procter

#20. I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

Neill Blomkamp

#21. Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles ... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

Frank Laubach

#22. This bastard is so guilty he already has his lawyer here.

Kevin Hearne

#23. To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

Jennifer Granholm

#24. If perception is stronger then reality why don't we just perceive to have a good day.

Terry Blakeman

#25. The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

Cinda Williams Chima

#26. It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Marya Mannes

#28. I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

#29. Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Jodi Picoult

#30. The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

Gilles Deleuze

#31. The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

Sallust

#32. Love a girl truly
Expectation: Marriage
Reality : Friendzoned

Subhasis Das

#33. When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.

Jessica Valenti

#34. Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

Nicholson Baker

#35. Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

Tullian Tchividjian

#36. By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

George Orwell

#37. One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#38. I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.

Wally Lamb

#39. When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn't you rather skip reality?

Nico J. Genes

#40. Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

Martin Heidegger

#41. Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies.

Pamela Cummins

#42. There were 31 teams that didn't think I was as good as the guys taken off the board. That's no disrespect to the talented players that they are, but I'm confident in my abilities and every time I go out there I want people to wonder why I wasn't on their board and why they didn't try to pick me up.

Justin Cole

#43. The cicadas were singing a song.
It was a one-noted, one-worded; The words sounded like "please".
They were singing and singing and singing and the whole world was falling down.

Karen Foxlee