Quotes About Expectation

No matter how serious the obligation, a star is more of a star if he never arrives. Absence is his forte. The question of whether he'll show up gives the event a ceaseless undercurrent of suspense. But a true star never arrives. Showing up is for second-rate actors who need to seek attention.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.

Even if you are quite satisfied with your current conditions, you should strive for more. Yesterday's luxuries become today's necessities. If once you could live well in a three-bedroom apartment with one car and a single desktop computer, today you need a five-bedroom house with two cars and a host of iPods, tablets and smartphones.

Uma das poucas leis férreas da história é que os luxos tendem a se tornar necessidades e a gerar novas obrigações. Uma vez que as pessoas se acostumam a um certo luxo, elas o dão como garantido.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

I come from the generation of readers who expected a beloved series to go on and on. I would be happy to keep Bruce and Barbara and Jimmy going as long as they're willing to talk to me in my head. But times have changed, and if that's not possible, I don't know what will come next.

My first novel, Death Will Get You Sober, came out on my sixty-fourth birthday--not quite the career path I expected.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Waiting for changing opinions is like waiting for nothing.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come

If you pay that price daily by planning and preparing and working to become the right kind of person, then you can legitimately expect to have all that life has to offer.

winners expect to win, they expect victory, and they expect success!

Unfortunately, lack of obedience is one of our most difficult problems in America. Many people erroneously believe that being obedient means being subservient to someone else. In reality, it indicates respect for the authority of an authority figure. Realistically speaking, you must respect authority before you can legitimately expect others to respect your authority.

We wait expectantly, trusting that a good, wise, all-knowing God will accomplish His gracious purposes in His good time. We trust that while we wait He's preparing the situation, other people, or us for something special.

Something's going to happen!