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Quotes About Expectation

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
~ Hermann Broch
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
~ Ambrose Bierce
New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
~ Samuel Johnson
God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
~ Isaac Bickerstaffe
Hope is the raw material of losers.
~ Fernando Flores
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
~ Euripides
Hope is the best part of our riches.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.
~ Dwight Macdonald
Alexandre Dumas
~ Wait and hope!
Hope comes in many forms.
~ David Chase
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!
~ Jeff Belanger
What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope.
~ James MacDonald
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
~ Pierre Corneille
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
~ Sydney Smith
Every Monday morning is new hope.
~ Maira Kalman
With every farewell comes a hidden hope.
~ Paulo Coelho
I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.
~ Princess Diana