Quotes About Expectation

Coco, however, courted consequence; she was still a girl, and she still assumed a connection between what she was doing and what she wanted and what might result.

In my dreams I have lived a promise that no waking day has ever kept.

I'd not felt so much as a pinprick of foreboding or dark premonition about what lay beyond the curve of time.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.

People have a little more patience for a taped piece than they do a live piece.

People are not patient anymore.

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

It's tough to step in the shoes of Paul George.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the movie 'industry'... I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a 'breakthrough' is almost an automatic for sure 'let down' or heartbreak.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006 - at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying.

People are paying to see me. You've got to give something back.

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

Penalties are part of the game, you know. You need to score. You have the chance but you need to score.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.

It's always pressure to take a pen, doesn't matter if it's against City, or another team. It's always pressure to take the pens.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.