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expectations boredom inspire
Edward Hirsch One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.
expectations understanding may
David Hume Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
expectations recipes disaster
Bear Grylls You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
expectations assuming granted
Frederic Bastiat Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.
expectations people trying
Derek Jacobi Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
expectations i-can do-the-best
Carlos Beltran I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.
expectations stupidity conform
Carlos Castaneda It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
expectations would-be mature
Charlie Munger One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people next cleanliness
Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
people littles controversy
Charles Stross In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
people church opinion
Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
people waiting lord
Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
people sin made
Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
secret disease pestilence
Charles Dickens In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
secret together needs
Alan Watts Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
secret wipe take-a-deep-breath
Alan Watts Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
secret easy carried-away
Alan Patricof The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.
secret dawn cry-the-beloved-country
Alan Paton But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
secret shortcuts substitutes
Al Oerter There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.
secret ingredients responsible
Akio Morita There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
secret experience together
David Hume We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.
secretary
David Brooks It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.