Expectation Quotes

"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
-Voltaire

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
-Charles F. Kettering

"[It is a story] to satisfy the expectations of the average man, who wants awful things to happen to over prominent people."
-Ted Morgan

"High expectations are the key to everything."
-Sam Walton

"For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance."
-Anthony Beal

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."
-Horace Mann

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit."
-Amos Bronson Alcott

"Our expectation was to do better than we did at the district meet."
-Gail Maundrell

"Our expectation is that GDP will increase by 0.9% in the June quarter to be 2.1% higher that the June quarter 2004."
-Adam Carr

"A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness."
-Fontenelle

"The results fell short of my expectation."
-Frank Wang

"I've never had this kind of expectation before, but I'm not going to blame anything on that. It's not being able to control myself that's led to the poor season so far."
-Justin Baum

"The earnings were about a penny or two more than expectation, but because the source was investment banking, it probably doesn't excite the market that much."
-James Schmidt

"The expectation is there. I'm going to have to get better. Our other guys have to get better."
-Nate Roberts

"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
-Marya Mannes

"Stress is related to anything that is considered a demand or high expectation."
-Robert Mcgrath

"We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation."
-Michael Howard

"The expectation in this community is so high, they'd run me out of town if I didn't make it. The atmosphere around here is that we're supposed to be here."
-Alvin Copeland

"It's our expectation that we would probably see more."
-Roxanne Hercules

"Our expectation was that it would have to do with Social Security, pensions, or health care."
-Craig Brimhall

"The actions of the players at the commencement of the game were most concerning and not consistent with the expectation the League has established."
-David Branch

"My expectation is that it will expand then decline unless the banks expand the functionality of their services."
-Gerhard Coetzee

"If it's the expectation, why punish them?"
-Jonathan Wilcox

"I come into every camp with the expectation of playing every day. I always go hard."
-Fernando Vina

"The competition should not be one of huge expectation about putting out your best team."
-Gareth Jenkins

"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
-Francois Ftnelon

"This definitely raises expectation levels. Now I just have to keep it up."
-Kevin Kring

"There is an expectation that grown-ups are going to take care of little kids, not destroy them."
-Rusty Ladd