Expectation Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

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.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

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.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

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.

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 love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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.

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.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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.