Expectations Quotes

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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
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. — Paddy Ashdown
We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation… — Kevin B. Rollins
Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. — John M. McHugh
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies… — Anthony Minghella

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