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Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.

Amanda Lindhout
effort expectations perfect

A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.

Amanda Ripley
panic waste expectations

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

Amar Bose
discipline expectations years

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

Amber Heard
categories proud expectations
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one. by Ambrose Bierce

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ambrose Bierce
hopeful hope expectations
prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usua... by Ambrose Bierce

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

Ambrose Bierce
forbidden outlook expectations

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

Ambrose Bierce
assassins done expectations
We generally get the evil we expect. by Amelia Barr

We generally get the evil we expect.

Amelia Barr
expectations evil
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. by Amy Tan

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan
fate half expectations
I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. by Amy Tan

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

Amy Tan
tests expectations two
Hope is the adrenalin of the soul. by Amy Tan

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

Amy Tan
soul hope expectations

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Amy Tan
fate expectations thinking

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Amy Tan
kindergarten parent expectations

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

Andre Breton
confusion expectations challenges

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Andre Maurois
maturity expectations writing

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

Andrea Hirata
fighting expectations writing

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Andrew Bird
records expectations song

The Oval Office symbolizes…the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

Andrew Card
expectations dream thinking
One thing I always remember: Frustration is built by unmet expect... by Andrew McCutchen

One thing I always remember: Frustration is built by unmet expectations.

Andrew McCutchen
frustration expectations remember

The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children, with the confident expectation that thereby the needless de-struction of the forests will be stayed, and the improvement of grounds about school buildings and residences will be promoted.

Andrew S. Draper
expectations children school
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