Quotes About Expectancy

Some folks want their luck buttered.

M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm? J: He's just a friend. We barely know each other. M: Nice. The stuff dreams are made of.

That Hölderlin's poem should pass from Asia to Patmos and thence to the Christian mystery may seem like a superficial association of ideas, but actually it is a highly significant train of thought: it is the entry into death and the land beyond, seen as the self-sacrifice of the hero for the attainment of immortality. At this time, when the sun has set and life seems extinguished, man awaits in secret expectancy the renewal of all life:

Be careful. You may get exactly what you wish for.

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

The average life expectancy for a black man in an American city is something like twenty-three very short years. The reality of that had never fully kicked in before, but it did that night. And I thought, hell, I'm at risk just walking around.

When people hear you singing songs which are done as playback, they don't see you. But when you perform live, they expect you to be interacting with them.

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

in real life, every single bit of risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy.

Every single risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy.

One may be risk loving yet completely averse to ruin. The central asymmetry of life is: In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. Further: Ruin and other changes in condition are different animals. Every single risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy. Finally: Rationality is avoidance of systemic ruin.

There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

Good afternoon, residents! A reminder that our salsa dance class starts in ten minutes." "Shall we go to that, Gram-Gram?" I said. "A lot of times, meeting someone in person is best." "Only women go to salsa dancing." "Maybe you should become a lesbian, then. It would solve that pesky life expectancy problem.

Because what can you do with people that like you, except, of course, inevitably disappoint them?

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.