Quotes About Expectancy

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

expectation isn't the same as desire

When we think of longer life expectancy, we may envision ten years added to our existence later on. But it may also be that we've added time to adolescence, which now stretches past the teen years and into the twenties.

Expectation and hope generate tension, as does fear.

One can wrap the truth in palatable euphemisms for only so long, then it chokes in the throat and the lies suffocate. One ends in hating those who force the deceit by their expectancy, their fear, their cowardice, their sheer lack of understanding of the reality of pain and loss.

I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it's very, very, very rare that I lose to someone that I'm not supposed to.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

Everyone will expect me to score in every game, which probably isn't realistic, but I'll go out trying to do that.

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.

BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO SURPRISED TO BE EATEN UP! guffawed the giant. PRINCESSES ALWAYS EXPECTS TO GET RESCUED. Do they? asked Anya mildly. Better they should rescue themselves.

The trouble with bravery is," said Johnny. "that if you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you all the time." "Or," said René, "bravery is often just the action of someone who does not know what to do next, and acts out of panic.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

Travel, though it broadens the mind, narrows the life expectancy.

Maja is thirty-seven weeks pregnant.

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

So live in an attitude of positive expectancy, knowing that everything that happens in your life benefits you in some way.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their approbation, demands that they appreciate her dishes and call for second helpings; she is upset if they are not hungry, to the point that one wonders whether the fried potatoes are for her husband or her husband for the fried potatoes.

...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

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.

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

He was the sort of child people imagine their children will be, before they have children.