Expectation Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

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.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.