High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Charles F. Kettering

[It is a story] to satisfy the expectations of the average man, who wants awful things to happen to over prominent people.

Ted Morgan

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance.

Anthony Beal

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace Mann

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our expectation was to do better than we did at the district meet.

Gail Maundrell

Our expectation is that GDP will increase by 0.9% in the June quarter to be 2.1% higher that the June quarter 2004.

Adam Carr

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

Fontenelle

You can imagine we have an expectation of privacy more so than opening this up to 20 units.

Cynde Mercer

The expectation is there. I'm going to have to get better. Our other guys have to get better.

Nate Roberts

The results fell short of my expectation.

Frank Wang

I've never had this kind of expectation before, but I'm not going to blame anything on that. It's not being able to control myself that's led to the poor season so far.

Justin Baum

The earnings were about a penny or two more than expectation, but because the source was investment banking, it probably doesn't excite the market that much.

James Schmidt

Our expectation was that it would have to do with Social Security, pensions, or health care.

Craig Brimhall

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

Marya Mannes

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Michael Howard

Stress is related to anything that is considered a demand or high expectation.

Robert Mcgrath

The expectation in this community is so high, they'd run me out of town if I didn't make it. The atmosphere around here is that we're supposed to be here.

Alvin Copeland

People are hoping for the best, but there's an expectation that there will be some glitches.

Pat Epple

It's our expectation that we would probably see more.

Roxanne Hercules

The actions of the players at the commencement of the game were most concerning and not consistent with the expectation the League has established.

David Branch

My expectation is that it will expand then decline unless the banks expand the functionality of their services.

Gerhard Coetzee

If it's the expectation, why punish them?

Jonathan Wilcox

I come into every camp with the expectation of playing every day. I always go hard.

Fernando Vina

The competition should not be one of huge expectation about putting out your best team.

Gareth Jenkins

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

Francois Ftnelon

There is an expectation that grown-ups are going to take care of little kids, not destroy them.

Rusty Ladd

This definitely raises expectation levels. Now I just have to keep it up.

Kevin Kring

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Shana Alexander

My expectation is to begin the first of May.

Joseph Kerby

My expectation is they will start to come down. I just can't bring them down as fast as everyone would like.

Peter Currie

That was his expectation when he turned up at that meeting.

Ross Barnett

The expectation are the same whether you're 4 years old or 80 years old.

Daniel Gaul

There is great expectation among the players. Everybody is very excited about making their Champions League debut.

Vladimir Weiss

Implicitly when they make that request there's an expectation that it will be paid back.

David Morse

I have every expectation it will set a new record, I think manufacturing has a future.

James Buchen

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

Owen Felltham

The expectation is already there that China is going to be the most important power center in East Asia.

David Kang

Give that what was once a bold prediction has now become the consensus expectation.

Brien Lundin

It's our expectation that when a consumer pays $25 for something it should be worth $25 for a reasonable period.

Janet Jenkins

It's a lesson in expectation management.

Colin Morton

There's no reason at a time that you're at an emotional low to compound that with false hopes and expectation.

Robert Blackburn

The public expectation is changing. It is expected as an entitlement that we provide that care.

Kathy Rucker

The unintended consequence to disaster is more vulnerability, created by a culture of expectation that government will always be there to make us whole.

Jim Geringer

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Eric Hoffer

There's a certain expectation, and I demand that things be done a certain way. Little things make a big difference.

Kathy Gibson

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Linda Tripp

Even with oil, the expectation seems to be that higher prices are something we have to live with for now.

Michael Carty

We haven?t really hit our expectation in Connecticut.

Tom Torrisi

Certainly we are not comfortable with the guidance out there at this point. There's an expectation that there will be some model adjustment on the downside.

Robert Wayman

I think there was an expectation created more by Government than anyone that media reform was on the agenda and would be dealt with.

Greg Baxter

The expectation is that their operations will continue pretty much as [they have] been in the past.

Jim Reynolds

I guess there's just an expectation.

Michael Lutz

Our expectation is Asia will continue to be strong.

George Fellows

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Ivan Illich

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellis Peters