Expectations Illusions Quotes

#1. Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.

Donald Trump

#2. Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia

#3. It was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.

Immanuel Kant

#4. Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

Saint Augustine

#5. Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done

Robert Hunter

#6. John Coffey was torn open by what he had done ... but he would live. The girls would not. They had been torn open in a more fundamental way.

Stephen King

#7. If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

Mark Sheppard

#8. In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Samuel Butler

#9. The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

Sigmund Freud

#10. I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Marilyn Hacker

#11. For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.

Marie Helvin

#12. Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would have been wallowing in illusions.

Eva Heller

#13. Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Deepak Chopra

#14. While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

Sara Sheridan

#15. Do good. That's all any of us can do.

Emlyn Chand

#16. You can buy a man's hours off him, you can steal his days from him, or you can rob him of his whole life, but no one can take away from any man so much as a single moment. That's the way it is.

Robert Seethaler

#17. Expectations are illusions;
Pretense they hang on thin threads.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann