A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney

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

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

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
Kathy Acker

But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
Isoroku Yamamoto

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
Pat Mastelotto

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

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
Dean Inge

Frankly, I'm more worried about the violence we do to ourselves and our children by allowing the media to create an expectation of instant gratification.
Hugh Mackay

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Alan Dundes

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

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

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