#expectation

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. ↗

— Michael Landon

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Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. ↗

— Michael Landon

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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship. ↗

— Greg Louganis

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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be. ↗

— Max Lucado

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The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses. ↗

— Robert Luskin

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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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