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Quotes About Expectation

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.
~ Sheila Ballantyne
Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.
~ Jodi Picoult
The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
~ Victoria Moran
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
~ Frank A. Clark
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
~ Homer
Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.
~ Grantland Rice
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
~ Andre Dubus
I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.
~ Anna Neagle
Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
~ John Aubrey
How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.
~ Eleanor Mondale
Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
~ Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
~ Florence Nightingale
Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.
~ Luanne Rice
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
~ Storm Jameson
If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.
~ Bruce Bochy
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
~ Thomas Fuller
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
~ Seneca the Younger
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
~ Amy Tan
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
~ Joseph Addison
When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.
~ Christa Wolf
The thing I fear comes upon me
~ Eric Butterworth
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
~ Honore de Balzac