Contradictory Expectations Quotes & Sayings

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man! — Ralph Ellison

Adding value to your life is the only way to fulfill your calling — Sunday Adelaja

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. — Linda McCartney

And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird. — Autumn Sanders

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before ... We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and effortless..We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical. We expect to be rich and charitable, powerful and merciful, active and reflective, kind and competitive. We expect to be inspired by mediocre appeals for excellence, to be made literate by illiterate appeals for literacy ... to go to 'a church of our choice' and yet feel its guiding power over us, to revere God and to be God. Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer. — Daniel J. Boorstin

I don't want only one night. I want all nights. I want all of you, FOREVER.
-Loki Staad — Amanda Hocking

For me, acting is doing. — Pierce Brosnan

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual. — Abdoulaye Wade

I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on. — Abdallah II Of Jordan