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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.