Expectation Quotes

“I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.”

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

“The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,Even in the moment that we call them ours.”

“Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.”

“A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.”

“I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.”

“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?”

“People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.”

“All promise outruns performance.”

“If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.”

“Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.”

“Through winter-time we call on spring,And through the spring on summer call,And when the abounding hedges ringDeclare that winter's best of all:And after that there's nothing goodBecause the spring time has not come-Not know that what disturbs our bloodIs but its longing for the tomb.”

“Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.”

“The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.”

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality”

“The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it.”

“Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.”

“I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?”

“It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.”

“People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.”

“I want to see you shoot the way you shout.”

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

“Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.”

“This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.”