"Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless." — Gilbert K. Chesterton

More Expectancy Quotes

This quote is filed under Expectancy Quotes, one of 90 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look… — Fred Allen
• Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can… — Thomas Troward
• A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking… — Ernest Holmes
• In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther
• As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an… — Richard J. Foster
• Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am… — Robert Breault
• It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that… — Lewis Thomas
• What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak,… — Wayne Dyer
• I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But… — Sherry Lansing
• An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in… — Wassily Kandinsky
• A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with… — Diane Ackerman
• We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases… — Ken Buck

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