Shakespeare Expectation Quotes & Sayings

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking. — Mickey Rivers

Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke. — Thom Yorke

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. — William Shakespeare

We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus. — Frederick Lenz

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation. — William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache. — William Shakespeare

Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit. — Joseph Addison

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away. — Stephen King

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase. — Terence Conran

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. — Joshua Jackson

The tides are in our veins. — Robinson Jeffers

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. — William Shakespeare