#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.”

“Duty is what one expects from others.”

“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”

“The reality is more excellent than the report.”

“Attachment comes only where we expect a return.”

“We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.”

“You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.”

“However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.”

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”

“Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.”

“I always entertain great hopes.”

“Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.”

“Begin each day with the expectation that it will bring something new, something to which you can say yes.”

“As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

“Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.”

“I start out by believing the worst”

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

“When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.”

“Achievement brings its own anticlimax.”

“Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.”

“The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.”

“Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.”

“I heard a guy tell me he liked cherries. I waited to hear if he was going to say "tomatoes", then I realized he like cherries just. That joke is ridiculous.”

“In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.”

“When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.”