Jules Verne Quotes

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

I don't have any expectations.

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

George W. Bush will always do better than you expect.

Hope is not a strategy.

You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.