Expectation Quotes

778 Expectation quotes by 556 unique authors

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — 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
weren’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
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write,… — Stephen King
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality… — Jodi Picoult
Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course… — Cassandra Clare
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still… — Stanislaw Lem
Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her.… — Gena Showalter
What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity. — Richard Carlson
It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on. — Paulo Coelho
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up… — Brandon Sanderson
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on… — Haruki Murakami

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