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Letter "E" » Expectation
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«You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together»
«When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
Appreciation,
Expectation
| Keywords:
appreciates, reduced, zero
«We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
disappointed, expectation, expecting, gratified, gratifies
«Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.»
Author: William Congreve
| About:
Expectation,
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
chase, discovers, expectation, insipid, overtaking, possessing, The Chase, uncertainty
«Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.»
«Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Destiny,
Expectation
| Keywords:
evermore, expectation, infinitude, infinitudes
«When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.»
Author: Bill Bradley
(Basketball Player, Senator)
| About:
Expectation,
Speech
| Keywords:
elicit, elicited, eliciting, elicits, Speeches
«To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.»
«We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Expectation,
Learning
| Keywords:
aid, expectation, reawaken, reawakening
«To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death bids expectation rise»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
bids, pang, preceding, relies
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