"Life is largely a matter of expectation." — Horace

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• I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.… — Michele Bachmann
• Expectation is the mother of all frustration. — Antonio Banderas
• People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation… — Halle Berry
• If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life… — Cate Blanchett
• 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line… — Anthony Bourdain
• There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
• 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… — James L. Buckley
• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to… — Fanny Burney
• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott
• An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. — Samuel Alexander
• When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the… — Noam Chomsky

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