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Quotes About Expectancy

I'm a superstar. And I move like a superstar in that Octagon, and I expect somebody to move like that when they signed that dotted line with me.
~ Tony Ferguson
Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.
~ Clint Eastwood
I walked back down the room and out. The little blonde at the PBX looked at me expectantly, her small red lips parted, waiting for more fun. I didn't have any more. I went on out.
~ Raymond Chandler
Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.
~ Julian Barnes
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
~ Jane Austen
Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.
~ Sharon Stone
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
~ Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
~ Thomas Troward
over-inflated expectations
~ David Lagercrantz
Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
~ Oswald Chambers
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
~ Paul Valery
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
~ Hermann Broch
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.
~ Jane Fonda
Hay gente contenta y conforme, que sólo aspira a que cada día sea igual que el anterior y que el próximo; y a que no se acaben.
~ Javier Marías
A housefly has a longer life expectancy than the manager of a Premier League team.
~ Alex Ferguson
Vettai' is a lovely film! I knew it would click big time.
~ Sameera Reddy
I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.
~ Jerry Della Femina
Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.
~ Richard Blackaby
If you are presently facing significant challenges in your life, trust in the Lord! Be an aggressive responder who lives with alert expectancy!
~ Richard Blackaby
It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. ("The Disinheritors")
~ Richard Matheson
Everybody wants to be you. Everybody loves you; fathers and sons, wives and daughters. Young and old, rich and poor. Because hopes are high in the poor houses, hopes are high in the rich houses- Hopes you have raised. Hopes you must fulfil.
~ David Peace
And although we are presently ranked first in the world in health-care spending, we are ranked thirty-seventh in overall health-system performance, according to the World Health Organization,2 and twenty-second in life expectancy among the thirty developed countries.
~ David Perlmutter