Quotes About Expectation

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal - they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

Nobody believes me, but to be honest the pressure is not something that I feel.

I wasn't a No. 9, as everyone believes today. Every time I played as a No. 9, I failed.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.

I mean, at the beginning of a season you never know how things are going to turn out. You're always going in positive, believing in the work that's been done.

The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for the group to which we belong.

While it took World War II to put a true end to the Great Depression, the work of the New Deal had already added a new and permanent dimension to the American experiment in the mid-twentieth century: the expectation that government could play a more direct role in individual lives.

You never can tell what's going to happen to a man until he gets to a place of responsibility

She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. "I got nothing," she told me. "No replies." I imagined her feeling a bit deflated about this—that sad feeling when nobody congratulates you for being funny, that black silence when the Internet doesn't talk back.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

A wish is a dream come true. Since dreams are never clear, they invariably disappoint.

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.

To paraphrase Frank Zappa, she'd thought it was a man she wanted, but instead it was a muffin.

For the next two hours Denise mainly paid attention to her hand, which she'd laid on the sofa cushion within easy reach of Robin's. The hand wasn't comfortable there, it wanted to be retracted, but she didn't want to give up hard-won territory. When the movie ended they watched TV, and then they were silent for an impossibly long time, five minutes or a year, and still Robin didn't take the warm, five-fingered bait. Denise would have welcomed some pushy male sexuality right around now.

Silence, however, is a useful statement only if someone, somewhere, expects your voice to be loud.

Enid had chosen to believe the promise of his looks. Life then became a matter of waiting for his personality to change.

All Thinking is Wishful.

Each might have been a week except for night's failure to come and close the deal. When