Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of…

Keeping up with everybody's expectation is soooo hard!

— Naomi

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

— William Poundstone

Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper,…

— Sarah Addison Allen

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

— Janelle Monae

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

— John Ortberg

“My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.”

— Ryan Lilly

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got…

— Wendell Berry

Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or…

— Seth Godin

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter…

— Joyce Meyer

I belong to a society in which people go to collage because they're expected to, not because of a life purpose.

— Mega

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

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

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

— Steven Erikson

“Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.”

— Lionel Suggs

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

— Carolyn Hax