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Quotes About Expectation

It's more responsibility for star kids. Instead of having things easy, expectation is higher. They are compared to their parents, and that's unfair.
~ Sridevi
The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
~ Billy Collins
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.
~ Michael Cunningham
The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.
~ Noah Hawley
Biju Babu lives in the hearts of millions of Oriyas. Our party has been named after him. People expect us to carry forward the unfinished task that Biju Babu has left for us.
~ Naveen Patnaik
With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.
~ D. B. Sweeney
Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.
~ Ron Howard
To be asked to perform a new 'Talking Head' was beyond any expectation. The matchless brilliance of Alan Bennett's words coupled with the extraordinary wisdom of Nick Hytner's direction made this a thrilling and quite simply unforgettable experience, and I'm enormously grateful.
~ Sarah Lancashire
It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.
~ Dave McCary
It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.
~ Bhumi Pednekar
When 'Indian Idol 2' started, I believed we would have a female idol this time. Unfortunately, that didn't happen and it is really funny.
~ Anu Malik
Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
~ John Heywood
What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.
~ Debasish Mridha
When you give without expectation, you will always have more to give away.
~ Debasish Mridha
If life, you get what you believe you deserve.
~ Jay Samit
The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.
~ Zack Love, Anissa's Redemption
A woman's love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated.
~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
~ Compton Gage
Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
~ Compton Gage
Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
~ Compton Gage
Real Women are Covered to be Discovered in due time
~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
~ Shannon L. Alder
You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim." - Liam
~ Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind