#expect

I expected to go into journalism or law. ↗

— Christie Hefner

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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#before #british #cannot #conscience #decided

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others. ↗

— William John Wills

#agree #expectations #good #his #i

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#expect #having #just #many #most

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. ↗

— Alex Winter

#commerce #days #end #enormous #expecting

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#come #counting #expect #generally #home

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#afraid #anybody #been #comes #earth

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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