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" A desert is a place without expectation. "

Nadine Gordimer

" All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. "

Francois Fenelon

" Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver. "

" An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. "

Samuel Alexander

" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "

" Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. "

" By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central. "

Richard Greenberg

" Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility. "

" Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent. "

Laura van den Berg

" Expectation is the mother of all frustration. "

Antonio Banderas

" Giving back was an expectation, not an option. "

Casey Wasserman

" I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. "

" I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way. "

" If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied. "

" If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating. "

" I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

" I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play. "

Colin Kaepernick

" I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed. "

Natalia Vodianova

" I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation. "

James Vincent McMorrow

" In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. "

" In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. "

" I never do any song with any expectation. "

Yo Yo Honey Singh

" I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet. "

" In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. "

" I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day. "

" 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

" I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. "

" I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign. "

Michele Bachmann

" Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope. "

Michael Beschloss

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