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Expectations Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it…
- Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future…
- Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can…
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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… — 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;… — 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,… — 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… — Beck
- The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations… — 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… — 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
- 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… — Andrea Bocelli