Expectation Quotes

778 quotes by 556 authors

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. — Barbara Kingsolver
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… — Charlotte Bronte
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation… — James Redfield
You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts… — Leo Tolstoy
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast… — Joe Biden
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier.… — Sarah Addison Allen
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity. — Umberto Eco
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. — Douglas Adams
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; andâ€¦though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Good is not good, where better is expected — Thomas Fuller
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a… — William P. Young
When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions donâ€™t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and… — Rhonda Byrne
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has… — C.S. Lewis
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure… — Italo Calvino
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. — Michael Crichton
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. — Emily Dickinson
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace

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