Expecting Too Much Quotes

• What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Haste, Too Much

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

  May Sarton

  Acceptance, Balance, Asking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• There is no such thing as expecting too much.

  Susan Cheever

  Optimistic, Too Much, Expecting

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Clever, Mean, Common Sense

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about their lipstick. I don't mind wiping lipstick off myself, but I hate seeing it on cigarettes, napkins and coffee cups! I don't like women with all their beauty machinery showing-curlers, cold cream, mascara brushes. I'd even prefer to not see a woman touch up her lipstick, but I guess that's expecting too much.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sorry, Hate, Coffee

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• One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

  Norbert Wiener

  Learning, Science, Discovery

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• The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.

  William Gurnall

  Sweet, Yield, Trying

  William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.240, Moody Publishers

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• No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.

  Robert E. Lee

  Army, Too Much, Lasts

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• He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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