Expectation Quotes

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The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing… — John Mellencamp
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 what… — Joyce Meyer
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. — Margaret Mitchell
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something… — Lyn Nofziger
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves… — Henri Nouwen
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please… — Chuck Palahniuk
I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level… — Danica Patrick
It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view. — Kevin Pietersen
It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important… — Emily Procter
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so… — Ramakrishna
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. — Theodore Isaac Rubin
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. — Rosalind Russell
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. — Jonathan Sacks
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people. — Marat Safin
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring.… — Jerry Saltz
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. — Dan Savage
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. — Dan Savage
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. — William Shatner
I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me. — Elisabeth Shue
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in… — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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