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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

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.

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.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.