to hope was to expect

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

— Jane Austen

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

— Darren Criss

“We do not get what we hope for, we get what you expect.”

— David Leddick

“But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the…

— Rebecca Solnit

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

— Darren Criss

~Always hope but never expect < 3 ~

— Better_off_gone

In love, always hope but never expect.

— AziAira

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

— James Hillman

“To not hope, to expect nothing, to dismiss at every turn - these had been her only protection against certain devastation. Disappointment could not…

— Galen Beckett

Always hope, but never expect.

— Anonymous

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what…

— Richard Paul Evans

“Sometimes when you least expect it, hope wiggles into your heart.”

— Lynn Plourde

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

— Phil Ochs

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

— Anthony Burgess

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to…

— David S. Goyer