Quotes About Expectation

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

What you hope for, you also fear.

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Hope clouds observation.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

What can the harvest hope for...

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.