Expectation Quotes

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

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.

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.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

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.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

A desert is a place without expectation.

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

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.