That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

And so it is absolutely the case that you cannot have armed groups ultimately participating in politics with no expectation that they’re going to disarm.

There’s an expectation from the fans and the public, because of our playing roster, so if we return with anything less (than the title), then yeah, we could be considered failures.

Don’t let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow’s blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

It is important not to have the unrealistic expectation that we will find a magic key to help get rid of all suffering. It takes determination, patience, and more than one week.

There’s still an expectation that the Fed will raise rates another quarter-point.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Love hurts because we think that’s what love is.

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible...

Prospect is often better than possession.

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don’t always get what you want.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke–a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart;...

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

I asked her to wear something revealing, so she showed up in a prophet’s toga.

Evangelicals sometimes expect too much or, to put it more precisely, we look for a kind of change God hasn’t promised. It’s possible to expect too little, but under-expectation is usually a cynical reaction to...

Women should not be expected to write, or fight, or build, or compose scores; she does all by inspiring men to do all

It’s almost a boilerplate meeting. At the last meeting there was widespread expectation that they would remove their pledge to maintain accommodative policy for ‘a considerable period.’ But the December employment figures made it very...

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

Any tiniest feeling, which fills you with peace and joy can grow to the size of a mountain, when you act on it with no expectation, where and how it must take you. Enjoy the...

My expectation is Charlie will be looking for some sizable acquisitions to add onto Canon. The wicked side of me says Charlie has been angling for a job in the sun, and I’m sure he’ll...

We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us,...

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he...

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation – expectation divided by reality – you didn’t get the opposite of happiness. What you...

There just wasn’t anything there to give us a reasonable expectation of securing a guilty verdict in court, which is what is required for us to proceed.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was...

Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.

But look behind you, Mary.’ She nodded towards the dais. ‘One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.’It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My...

The expectation is that the NAPM numbers should continue to improve and that the manufacturing recession is hopefully going away.

The gravitational effect of the decapitation of the regime in Baghdad 24 hours ago has rippled right up here to the north, as was the hope and the expectation of allied coalition commanders.

Is God present or is he absent? Maybe we can say now that in the center of our sadness for his absence we can find the first signs of his presence. And that in the...

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

The time frame is past due. The expectation had been that by the time we kicked off our fund-raising in Canada, we would have had the final costs and design. However, what the Jerusalem Foundation...

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man...

Demand is moving crude oil prices higher, and then there’s also supply constraints, … OPEC for all practical purposes has ruled out any production increase in the June meeting. The expectation was for OPEC to...

The 37.5-hour week is more of a minimum baseline these days. There is an expectation by many employers that you will give 5 to 10 percent above that to get the job done and to...

No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

We also think that the Street’s fourth quarter 2002 expectation of 17 cents in earnings per share is unreasonably high.

Trust and condemnation work hand in hand for both work on the concept of experience, of knowing it, observing it, realizing it, understanding it and finally accepting it in either of the two categories for...

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.