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Quotes about Expectation

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
- Cicero
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
- Albert Camus
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
- George Eliot
Hope is patience with the lamp lit
- Tertullian
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want
- St. Thomas Aquinas
When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The roll out of a new car is always filled with great anticipation; it's almost like going back to school for a new school year.
- Christian Horner
I find the time between Christmas and New Year really difficult. You don't know whether you're supposed to be in pyjamas, eating mince pies or on some detox diet. You're all over the place.
- Frankie Bridge
When I booked 'Arrested Development,' which was a fantastic job, and I was working with an amazing cast and some of the best writing I've ever done, I still found myself looking for the next thing.
- Tony Hale