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Quotations on Expectation 38 Quotes Found That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. 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. 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. There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. 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. 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. 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. 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. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. 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. 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. Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. 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. To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam. 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. A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. 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. We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation. The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility. Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. 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. We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime? |
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