A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
John McHugh
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
Kathy Acker
But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana
Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
Pat Mastelotto
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Ellis Peters
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
Dean Inge
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Alan Dundes
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.
Ron Davies
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 the US, Japan and the international community.
Chen Shui-bian
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown
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