Quotes About Lowered Expectations

#1. We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.

Kofi Annan

#2. Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered expectations are the norm.

Brian J. D'Souza

#3. I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

Phillip Lopate

#4. She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars.

Dean Koontz

#5. To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

Maureen Connolly

#6. Betrayal ... is my favorite subject.

Norman Jewison

#7. On mornings when I hope you forget my name,
I walk through the high wet weeds
that don't have names either.
I do not remember the word dew.
I do not remember what I told you
with your ear in my teeth.

Dean Young

#8. I'd become more adept at being with other people; I'd lowered my expectations of them and learned to let my mind drift into neutral when they spoke.

Sebastian Faulks

#9. It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

Henry Reed

#10. Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

Emma Donoghue

#11. Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

Truman Capote

#12. Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.

Joseph Kosinski

#13. A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

John Milius

#14. His heart sank as her gaze passed over him, then her head whipped back.

Steven Erikson

#15. Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

Martin Luther

#16. You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

Claudia Rankine

#17. The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Orhan Pamuk

#18. The fear is mother of the event.

Viktor E. Frankl