I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. [. . . ] And it strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that a man can always solve his problems. There is an implication that if you just have a little more energy, a little more fight, the problem can always be solved. That is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.
We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism, and I have a communications degree. I studied journalism -- who, what, where, when, and why -- of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
Have an attitude of positive expectation.
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.
Any expectation is what pain is.
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.