Laeta Kalogridis Quotes

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I don't have any expectations.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.