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Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation. — Jan Morris

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return. — John Ortberg

True hope is severed from expectation. — Anne Michaels

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in. — Rajneesh

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary. — John Early

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. — Joan Chen

exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that — Joe Abercrombie

I am all expectation. — Oscar Wilde

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. — Samuel Johnson

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation. — Alexander Hamilton

The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself. — T Jay Taylor

expectation isn't the same as desire — Margaret Atwood

I made plans out of hope, expectation, desire, and duct tape, and I broke those plans with my bare hands. — Jarod Kintz

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. — Voltaire

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him. — Kevin Leman

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you. — T.F. Hodge

For every sacrifice, there is an expectation of reward. — Wes Fesler

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment. — Robert Fripp

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation. — Munia Khan

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation ... and instead to revel in the mystery. — Jerusalem Jackson Greer

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection
without sweaty hand of expectation,
understanding and accepting
if it never is given? — Viggo Mortensen

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation. — Tony Dungy

Pray for what you want.
Expect your answer in due time.
Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film. — Cate Blanchett

Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are. — E'yen A. Gardner

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. — Anuj

For the rest of his life he would yield to circumstance and expectation, coming to call these strange weights duty. — Richard Flanagan

The pain has receded but what's left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain. — Audrey Niffenegger

The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. — Brian Tracy

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another. — Kate Morton

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero. — Louis Bachelier

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible. — Wendy Wasserstein

To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces - desire, belief, and expectation. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Live with a quiet expectation of good. — Julia Cameron

Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. — Wallace Stegner

All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown. — Luke Johnson

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Expectation is the springboard of achievement. — Ngaio Marsh

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly

Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China. — Adi Godrej

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that. — Lizzy Caplan

When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself. — Choa Kok Sui

We must come with great expectation--for we will experience just what we expect. — Barbara Hughes

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation. — Michel De Montaigne

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. — David Hume

We can do the work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't give a gift with the expectation to get,
but if you have a gift, always try to give. — Debasish Mridha

Only expectation has value as currency, — Brandon Sanderson

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion. — William Scott

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment. — Tarthang Tulku

Expectation is the mother of all frustration. — Antonio Banderas

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? — Linda Tripp

A desert is a place without expectation. — Nadine Gordimer

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. — Anthony Liccione

Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon. — Colleen Mariotti

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. — Dave Eggers

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony. — Debasish Mridha

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. — Sam Abell

When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected. — Denis Napthine

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. — Aleksandar Hemon

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation. — Lee Ellis

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are. — Steve Carell

Sometimes the expectation is better than the fulfillment. — Susan Meissner

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. — Beth Simone Noveck

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility. — Pat Mastelotto

Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way. — Avijeet Das

I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square. — Charles Dickens

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet. — Munia Khan

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. — John M. McHugh

Expectation is a powerful attractive force. — Rhonda Byrne

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. — Kevin Kwan

Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation. — Harold Dull

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful. — Deanna Raybourn

...nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation. — Seneca.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. — Robin Hobb

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders. — Condoleezza Rice

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is respect,
recognition and honour
given without expectation. — Theodore Volgoff

We must not confuse conformity to religious expectation and culture to an actual growth in intimacy with our Lord and maturity of our faith. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. — Ellis Peters

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal. — Evan Osnos

The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly. — Rob Enderle

Failure must be a surprise not an expectation. — Bonakala Bsac

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being. — Josette Sheeran

Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay. — Carolyn Hax

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation. — John Stahl-Wert

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness. — Dov Davidoff

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. — Elbert Hubbard

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with. — Aporva Kala

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner ... — Teju Cole

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world. — Jeffrey Pierce

I am more than what they say I am. — John O'Callaghan

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated. — Luanne Rice

I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations. — Parul Wadhwa

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. — John Ortberg

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things. — Oprah Winfrey