“Perhaps I was expecting too much.”

“Perhaps I was too optimistic; perhaps I expected too much. I suppose I should have realized that few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“Do not expect too much of the end of the world.”

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish writer

“I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

“As a general rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Glamorama

“If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”

Po Bronson (1964) American writer

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”

Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923)

“I didn't expect to get the opportunity to create music for a living. I just couldnt stop making music, it was too much fun.”

Jesper Kyd (1972) musician

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher