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Quotes About Expectancy

I indulged you since you were a little girl, so you think every day is supposed to be the weekend.
~ Tayari Jones
It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
~ Ned Vizzini
it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy.
~ Niall Ferguson
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~ Van K. Tharp
She waited, she knew not for what, panting, with dry, burning lips, a leaping pulse, and a fever of expectancy in all her blood.
~ Jack London
The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.
~ Neil Strauss
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
~ Stephen Leacock
If you are dating someone in New York City, and they invite you over to watch a movie, they don't really want to watch a movie.
~ Chris Gethard
Obviously at wit's end, he scrubbed his hands over his face. "Doesn't your breed stop having birthdays at forty?" "We may stop counting, Dr. Carnegie, but that doesn't mean we don't expect an appropriate gift on the occasion.
~ Nora Roberts
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
~ W.C. Fields
I have a life expectancy of ten more minutes I'm going to eat what I want to eat.
~ Larry Kramer
There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.
~ Laura Kinsale
The prevailing note in the Amazon is one of monotony," thought Kenneth Grubb, "the same green lines the river-bank, the same gloom fills the forest. . . . Each successive bend in the river is rounded in expectancy, only to reveal another identical stretch ahead.
~ Greg Grandin
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
~ Mignon McLaughlin
All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
~ Amy Dickinson
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
~ Thomas Troward
New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek
~ Norman Mailer
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations
~ Norton Juster
Det havde altid været et mål at få pension. Det var blevet sagt allerede ved hans vugge, at han skulle være noget, der gav ret til pension, når han blev 65. Pensuionen havde så at sige været formålet med hans liv.
~ Hans Scherfig
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
~ Jane Austen
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
~ Jane Austen
though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her.
~ Jane Austen