top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A desert is a place without expectation."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Expectation quotes
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
"We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people."
"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
Explore more quotes by Nadine Gordimer
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."
bottom of page