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Quotes About Expectation

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
~ Walter Scott
The happy ending is our national belief.
~ Mary McCarthy
endless hope, endless disappointment.
~ Cassandra Clare
All industry must be excited by hope.
~ Samuel Johnson
I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
~ Robert Bridges
I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
~ Stephen Sondheim
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
~ Abraham Cowley
You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
~ Isaac Mizrahi
There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.
~ Narendra Modi
It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.
~ Justin Cronin
Delusive hope still points to distant good.
~ Euripides
My hope is that one day Mike Glennon is a Hall of Famer.
~ Josh McCown
I have yet to meet a person whose favorite movie is Gigli, but I hope to meet them one day and give them a hug.
~ Justin Bartha
Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.
~ John Ruskin
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
~ Dean Koontz
No day is without its innocent hope.
~ John Ruskin
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.
~ Jane Austen
My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.
~ Barack Obama
I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.
~ Henry Holmes Smith
Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.
~ Epicurus
She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.
~ Alice Munro
You narrow hope when you define it.
~ Barbara Hambly
When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won't become.
~ Jodi Picoult
I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.
~ James Madison