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Quotes About Expectation

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
~ Saint Augustine
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~ Unknown
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery
~ Ahlam Mosteghanemi
The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
~ Walter Winchell
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
~ Frederick Douglass
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect?
~ Unknown
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
~ Samuel Johnson
It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.
~ David Levithan
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
~ Harbhajan Singh
It will be funny in about 10 years.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.
~ W. W. Jacobs
Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?
~ Kiefer Sutherland
What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.
~ Anthony Holden
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.
~ Bobby Robson
Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.
~ Jim Rohn
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
~ Groucho Marx
The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.
~ John Madden