Expectation Quotes

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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. — Amy Tan
I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk. — Leonard Cohen
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself — Jane Austen
You who are in power have only the means that money produces â€” we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. — Alexandre Dumas
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the… — Nicholas Sparks
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected â€” an arrival, an… — Marilynne Robinson
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. — George Eliot
And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend?… — Kristin Cashore
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one… — Barbara Kingsolver
I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her… — Cassandra Clare
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It… — Simone de Beauvoir
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock… — Jasper Fforde
expectation isn't the same as desire — Margaret Atwood
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation. — Margaret Atwood
You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live… — Italo Calvino
Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed… — Karen Russell
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. — William Shakespeare
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent… — Osamu Dazai
Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what… — Shane Claiborne
werenâ€™t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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