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| Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. | | Jean Cocteau | |
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| In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose. | | Molly Ivins | |
| It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation | | Charlotte Bronte | |
| Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits | | William Shakespeare | |
| Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. | | Confucius | |
| The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. | | A. A. Milne | |
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| Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. | | William Cowper | |
| We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have | | Stephen Hawking | |
