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Quotes About Expectation

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
~ Rachel Cohn
Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.
~ John Green
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
~ E. L. Doctorow
We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I hope to get out before they start football next year.
~ Bear Bryant
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
~ Jane Austen
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
~ Sophocles
Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde
~ Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Hope is a satisfaction unto itself and need not be fulfilled to be appreciated.
~ Dr. Fred O. Henker
To hope is to enjoy.
~ Jacques Delille
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
~ Petronius
To hope is not to demand.
~ Anonymous
Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.
~ David Arnold
Dawn is ever the hope of men.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
He didn't liehe just gave her false hopes~
~ Tanya Gambhir
Hope gives happiness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The nights are always meaningless without hopes for tomorrow.
~ Auliq-Ice
It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.
~ Criss Jami
Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as if I were a ship with their hope on it, dropping down over the horizon.
~ Alice Munro