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Letter "E" » Expectation
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«Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.»
Author: A. A. Milne
(Humorist)
| About:
Expectation,
Time
| Keywords:
bird, dares, Die Trying, flying bird, races, swift, swiftest, wings
«The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.»
«There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.»
Author: Kingman Brewster
| About:
Challenge,
Expectation,
Satisfaction
| Keywords:
expectation, Great Expectations, relying, vindicate, vindicated
«She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens»
«That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Books,
Expectation
| Keywords:
closed, closed book, expectation, Good Book, opened
«The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different»
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
(Author, Editor)
| About:
Boys,
Expectation,
Hope
| Keywords:
expects, New World
«The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
depend, depend upon, diligence, expectations, mechanic, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, tools
«The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.»
Author: John Updike
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
besmirched, brick, Chelsea, despondency, Dickensian, fog, grandeur, Kiplingesque, overwhelmed, pavement, sweating, The Brick, Waterloo
«The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many»
«Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
acquisitions, adequate to, animate, discoveries
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