Quotes About Expectancy

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.

with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause.

Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

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

I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, that in this world there is neither honour nor justice. In this world one has to be cunning and cruel.

All through the meal Mr Horsfield talked without thinking of what he was saying. He was full of an absurd feeling of expectancy.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

The other girl was fifteen, and she was expecting

Sé que soy exigente pero no podía soportar ser menos que la mujer de su vida, en vistas de que él era el hombre de la mia.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

Because I'm afraid of what may happen to you. You have no duty to me. We found ourselves—no, we put ourselves—on opposite sides. I never expected, I never dreamed, that our friendship could last so long with circumstances as they are.

Chicago has the country's widest racial disparity in life expectancy—a gap of thirty years between Streeterville (nine miles north), where people expect to live to ninety, and my mom's old neighborhood, Englewood, where people live to only age sixty.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

And he waited—as he always had—for life to come and find him.

Willfully anticipating, in ignorance and in hope—this was how most people lived.

In 1980, at independence, a man might expect to live to sixty and to see his children grow up strong and have children of their own, and if he was fortunate, a man might even live to see his great-grandchildren bring him gourds of beer before he died. But life expectancy dropped to fifty, and now it has collapsed, all the way down to thirty-three. It is hard to comprehend. At thirty-three, just as people should be in their prime, they suddenly sicken and die.

the inner glow that pregnant women have

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it." "Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me.

Rothman gave me another sharp look, and then he looked down at his desk. 'Lou' he said softly, 'do you know how many days a year an ironworker works? Do you know what his life expectancy is? Did you ever see an old ironworker? Did you ever stop to figure that there's all kinds of dying, but only one way of being dead?

Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth.