Expectations Quotes And Sayings

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“Unfortunately, in today’s world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.”
– James L. Buckley 

“Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We’ve seen a society that many people thought couldn’t withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.”
– Susan Rice 

“There’s an expectation these days that novels – like any other consumer product – should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.”
– Donna Tartt 

“You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.”
– Arthur Golden 

“There’s a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been – but there’s still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.”
– Emmylou Harris 

“I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.”
– David Guterson 

“My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.”
– Steve Case 

“I try not to second-guess editors; they’re the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.”
– Garry Trudeau 

“I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.”
– Chen Shui-bian 

“It’s now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.”
– Jonathan Lethem 

“The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.”
– Joan Chen 

“When I write, I don’t have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.”
– Macklemore 

“Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.”
– Ellis Peters 

“Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.”
– Jim Clyburn 

“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.”
– George Boole 

“I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.”
– Paddy Ashdown 

“We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.”
– Kevin Rollins 

“We do, and there is a law in the United States – the Torture Convention – that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture – physical, mental or otherwise.”
– Jonathan Shapiro 

“I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.”
– Natalia Vodianova 

“Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto – a commitment to deliver.”
– John McHugh 

“I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.”
– Anthony Minghella 

“The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn’t fit with expectation – I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.”
– David Knopfler 

“I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.”
– Jonathan Dimbleby 

“Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.”
– Shana Alexander

“In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.”
– Robert South 

“We’re in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there’s no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.”
– Marek Belka 

“Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.”
– Pat Mastelotto 

“The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience’s expectation of a Pink Floyd show.”
– David Gilmour 

“The only other thing which I think is important is: Don’t write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.”
– Norton Juster 

“I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.”
– Ron Davies 

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