Quotes About Expectation Vs Reality

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

Eric Ambler

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

Pamela Cummins

#3. 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

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

Nenia Campbell

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

Mitch Albom

#6. 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

#7. 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

#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. God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

Joe Gibbs

#11. Expectation creates the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#12. 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

#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. That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

David Gray

#15. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

Benjamin Disraeli

#20. It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Terry Eagleton

#21. I walk alone to the store
And it's quiet uptown
I never liked the quiet before
I take the children to church on Sunday
A sign of the cross at the door
And I pray
That never used to happen before

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

Subhasis Das

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

Cinda Williams Chima

#24. We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

Rupert Murdoch

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

Marya Mannes

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

John C. Maxwell

#27. I went to Niagara Falls with my family when I was young, and I cried because I thought it would be bigger.

Meryl Davis

#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. An endless road, an immortal man and an infinite journey! This is all we want!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. 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

#31. If the person who says they love you is unwilling to sacrifice for you it ain't love.

Mark Hart

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

Terry Blakeman

#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. Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

Mal Peet

#35. 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

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

Tullian Tchividjian

#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. Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#41. It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

Hillary Rodham Clinton