(noun) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
"Do not expect others to solve the problem for you."
"It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business."
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions."
"An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root."
"To those who are given much, much is expected."
"Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
"Maybe I just expect too much."
"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
"Expectations keep us in a victim role. It keeps us blaming & stuck."