Quotes About Expectation

Ce qui la marqua le plus intensément fut le plaisir un peu ironique que l'on éprouve lorsqu'une prévision se vérifie, qu'un calcul tombe juste, qu'une intuition se trouve confirmée par les faits.

Will each of my daughters be delivered to me, one at a time, as from the briny deep?

Tommy was nowhere in sight, and though she waited for a few minutes, he didn't reappear.

He'll come," said Rosalind. "He's got to.

I never knew people could be afraid of good news too. I realized that good news took you places you didn't know anything about. It changed everything as much as bad news.

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

What you were always longing for is already staring you in the face and doesn't look anything like you expected it to.

On the night of March 17, 1887, most of Fort Myers's other 349 residents lined up outside the Edison estate and gasped with wonder as its lights went on. The local newspaper speculated that a date would soon be announced for the rest of the community to be properly wired and illuminated. But the anticipated shipments didn't arrive, and Edison returned to New Jersey.

She was also taking a big risk by hoping this sacrifice would mean something. If Rob turned out like any other rough boy in the neighborhood––if her son wasn't special like she believed he was––she feared the disappointment that would follow too much striving on her part.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.

don't expect me to be all dear diary this and dear diary that

it turns the shower scene was a lot harder to film than i expected

hopefully Mr. Blakely won't be too mad when he sees his

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

If you've ever been told, "You'll get it if you just want it bad enough," I'm here to let you off the hook: it simply isn't true.

Half a baked cake may not be enough to feed a wedding party, but it's enough to taste and leave everyone looking forward to the rest of the cake.

be prepared for surprises and bad news. In fact, celebrate the bad news, because you could have received the same bad news months later, after you'd built the software.

at least things didn't appear to be moving in a "Let's snap the wishbone" direction.

I expected to see a complete horror show. But I didn't know whether it would be a "pile of severed heads in the corner" horror show, or an "intestines hanging from the ceiling like party banners" horror show, or a good old-fashioned "floors soaked with blood" horror show. It

But this—this is always the same task over and over, to explore cryptozoology of a crude sort. All that changes is the type of animal, and the only challenge is whether the jaws on a crocodile can reasonably be expected to fit onto a bear. For example.