Quotes About Expectation

She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.

he drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct, which with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. —JOHN VON NEUMANN

But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

Great with child, and longing… for stewed prunes.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises.

Who lin'd himself with hope,Eating the air on promise of supply.

He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days.

Two lads that thought there was no more behindBut such a day tomorrow as today,And to be boy eternal.

Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.

By and by is easily said.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Mary McCarthy that "The happy ending is our national belief

In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.

He waited for their ritual goodnight kisses. They did not come. Alicia

My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you've waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related. / O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing.

Ere we had reach'd the wish'd-for place, night fell:   We were too late at least by one dark hour

My gentle Reader, I perceive, How patiently you've waited, And now I fear that you expect Some tale will be related. O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind," said Peale, "which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.