Expectation Quotes

“There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as that we are to ourselves.”

“It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good man.”

“I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes.”

“The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.”

“I find that in life, if you have an expectation of something, you're going to be let down.”

“People say, 'Stalin's daughter,' 'Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans. Or they say, 'No, she's come here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others. No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between. That 'somewhere in between' they can't understand.”

“I've never been able to understand why it is that just because I am a writer, I am supposed to have opinions on everything.”

“What I've always found about going to a party is that it's never as good as you think it's going to be.”

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”

“The fans here are the best. They're knowledgeable, they're passionate, and they expect you to win.”

“When you put that silver and black on, you're expected to win.”

“What are you going to do with your life? In the 1950s, it was easy to answer that question. You were going to get married and have kids. That was your life.”

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“Users’ expectations are set by their last best experience.”

“Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't be a bore, that you must be witty, that you must have something to say.”

“Expect a miracle.”

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

“Don’t expect anyone else to want for you what you want for yourself.”

“We have lived with inflation for a long time, and we have come to expect it.”