expectation quotes

• The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. (Andre Breton) [/system/challenges]
• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. (William Congreve) [/life]
• In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [power//power]
• The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. (William Hazlitt) []
• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. (Eric Hoffer) [hope-disappointment/]
• Life is largely a matter of expectation. ( Horace) [life/matter/]
• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. (Samuel Johnson) [love/]
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [desires/]
• I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. (Franklin Roosevelt) [/time]
• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. ( Seneca) [loss/time//future]
• We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. (Brian Tracy) [willpower/]
• Yes because it is always a bit nerve wracking when you lay something out there that is meaningful to you to be judged by others, after a point you become very close to your film and you want everyone to ‘get it' -- but that is an unrealistic expectation -- No, because I am here among friends, I know that, I can feel that. (Crispin Glover) [point/film/]
• When they try to market what they call black films, they have this core audience, who has this interest or that expectation. Why not put the movie out in 5,000 theaters to begin with? (Omar Epps) [market/interest//movie]
• “If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life— that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment— that would be the perfect state.” (Cate Blanchett) [/perfect]
• “People want you to satisfy every possible dream or expectation they would have for a woman president, ... We still live at a time when a female president is controversial - even though it seems so bizarre that we've made it to the 21st century excluding half of the potential talent pool.” (Geena Davis) [/president/time/president]
• The first expectation was that I was supposed to put on weight. Then it was expected that we would lead proper lives, though there wasn't a lot of conversation about it. (Peter Fonda) [/conversation]
• I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. (Cathy Freeman) []
• And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. (Kathy Acker) [find/language/]

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