Expectation Quotes

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

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 their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

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 next morning in the newspaper.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

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, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.