Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

The sexes were made for each other and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression all the time that I lived there that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

If I had my way if I was lucky enough if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

In other words don't expect to always be great. Disappointments failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem let's go and get it'.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.