Expectations Quotes

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Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were… — Michele Bachmann
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. — Francis Bacon
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a… — James A. Baldwin
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality… — Alan Ball
Expectation is the mother of all frustration. — Antonio Banderas
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for. — Beck
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become… — Martha Beck
People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and… — Halle Berry
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of… — Cate Blanchett
A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching… — Andrea Bocelli
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. — Edward de Bono
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically;… — Anthony Bourdain
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. — Danny Boyle
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations. — Jeff Bridges
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 we ask God… — James L. Buckley
False expectations take away joy. — Sandra Bullock

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