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Expectation
«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)
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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
«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)
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Expectation,
Speech
| Keywords:
elicit, elicited, eliciting, elicits, Speeches
«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)
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Expectation
| Keywords:
bids, pang, preceding, relies