I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep.
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.
I'm thrilled because I think that, you know, everyone has gotten what they wanted. You know, I just wanted to be (there) surrounded with the best actors period.
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived up exactly to that.
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.
