Pastoral Resources

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.