Famous quotes containing the word expectation:
“Sweet pliability of mans spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!longlong since had ye numberd out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“No expectation fails there,
No pleasing habit ends,
No man grows old, no girl grows cold,
But friends walk by friends.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
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