Expectation Quotes

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously ...

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further cons...

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it some...

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothin...

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face wit...

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fideli...

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful...

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrat...

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circu...

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born...

The more surely you rear your children in the ways of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with love and high...

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; ma...

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have en...

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t...

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...

Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls...

I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister,...

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its re...

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are g...

That was what made traveling appeal to him - he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend...

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving t...

weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you fi...

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there w...