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Expectation Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
- RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by…
- prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
More Expectation Quotes
- I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband… — Michele Bachmann
- Expectation is the mother of all frustration. — Antonio Banderas
- People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in… — Halle Berry
- If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that… — Cate Blanchett
- 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and… — Anthony Bourdain
- There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
- Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte
- Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it… — James L. Buckley
- A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation… — Fanny Burney
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. — Samuel Alexander
- When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of… — Noam Chomsky