Quotes About Expectation

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

I thought you were going to break out into the running man, Carlton?

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Man is never out of range of surprises!

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

We are not men, but promises of men.

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.