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Quotes About Expectation

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
~ Clarice Lispector
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
~ Ronnie Shakes
Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.
~ Elizabeth Wein
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
~ Haruki Murakami
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
~ Jim Horning
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
~ Vita Sackville-West
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
~ Martin Luther
False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
~ Paul Valery
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
~ Louie Giglio
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
~ Jane Austen
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
~ Francis Bacon
Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.
~ Edward Kowalczyk
I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.
~ Elliott Smith
Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
~ Lee Child
As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.
~ Romain Gary
in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.
~ Patience Strong
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
~ Harlan Coben
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
~ Wallace Stegner
True faith is ever connected with hope.
~ John Calvin
Anger is really disappointed hope.
~ Erica Jong