Quotes About Expectation

Roberts knocked, heard: 'Enter.' Thought: 'Wanker.

It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

An optimistic early-rising whore with red lips and red boots sauntered along, smiling hopefully at middle-aged men, but there were no takers at this hour.

Women wanted a new deal, and they expected him to know, without being told, what the deal was, and to agree to it without negotiation.

hombres de poder jamás muestran gratitud. Démosles lo que les demos, lo aceptan como un derecho.

thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him.

O s? înveÈ›i în timp c? oamenii puternici nu dau niciodat? dovad? de recunoÈ™tin??. Orice-ar primi consider? c? li se cuvine.

he might never enter this house again. Coming

Then he told himself to be calm: this took place a thousand times a day all over the world. He did not need to understand it. The baby would come without his help.

By Saturday evening Duke Henri was in a tantrum, possessed by the rage of a young man who finds that the world does not work in the way he confidently expected.

Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?

Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

Boy, if you ain't a case: waiting someday to be a something to a Somebody you don't even know, yet.

The best thing about the future is that it happens one day at a time.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

One must command from each what each can preform.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.