Reality Expectation Quotes

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

Eric Ambler

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

Nenia Campbell

#3. Then why'd you do it?' I questioned in confusion. 'Why not?!' she answered enthusiastically.

Rebecca Donovan

#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. 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

#8. I love knowing other people like me. It makes me feel like I am okay just how I am

Tina J. Richardson

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

Sharon Salzberg

#10. We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own hearts.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#11. Expectation creates the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

John Cusack

#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. Users turned on their phones and went straight to WeChat to chat with friends, read their posts, and install apps within WeChat, effectively making it an alternate operating system.

Shaun Rein

#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. Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

Jess Walter

#20. Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

George W. Bush

#21. I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

Alexa Vega

#22. Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world.

Jack Welpott

#23. I outlived the bastards.

Herbert Hoover

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

Cinda Williams Chima

#25. You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

Jessica Alba

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

Marya Mannes

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

John C. Maxwell

#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. I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didn't matter how much melanin was in their skin.

Keegan-Michael Key

#31. Jesus plus nothing equals everything - and everything minus Jesus equals nothing.

Tullian Tchividjian

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

Subhasis Das

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

Terry Blakeman

#34. 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

#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. 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. 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