Expectation Quotes
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Expectation Quotes & Sayings
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True hope is severed from expectation.
— Anne Michaels
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
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 affectionwithout 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
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
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
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
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
