Baltimore Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience.…

— Wendell Berry

Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea…

— Caroline Myss

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

— Shannon Miller

Expectations cause disappointments.

— Tyler Rish

Living up to people's expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations.

— Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

Expectations just lead to disappointments

— Anonymous

All these expectations on me exist because of me in the first place.

— Luke Campbell

To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Why Do We Have Expectations? An expectation is simply an unexpressed need or hope. You have expectations because you are born with needs and…

— Mark Laaser

Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea…

— Caroline Myss

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

— Kehinde Wiley

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

— Michael Tubbs