Quotes for All
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. Erich Fromm
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Eric Hoffer
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. Emily Dickinson
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Douglas Adams
We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship – we don’t want this relationship to go out of control. Dimitri Simes
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of
so noble an undertaking!
Abigail Adams