Expectation Quotes

778 quotes by 575 authors

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting… — Bryan Cranston
You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a… — Dave Eggers
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying… — Samuel Alexander
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. — Cathy Freeman
You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation. — Janelle Monae
More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did… — James McGreevey
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. — Kathy Acker
I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through… — Atom Egoyan
Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a… — Susan Rice
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from… — Donna Tartt
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the… — Arthur Golden
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of… — David Guterson
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney,… — Steve Case
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper… — Garry Trudeau
I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of… — Chen Shui-bian
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. — Jonathan Lethem
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. — Joan Chen
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. — Macklemore
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. — Ellis Peters
Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this… — Jim Clyburn

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