Quotes About Expectation

Everyone is expecting something in each game I'm playing. I don't have to score in every game, but I want to do my best. I want to give everything for the club, for my teammates, and myself also.

I expect a lot. And, I hold my teammates accountable and they've got to hold me accountable.

If I hit a game-winning shot, right, and I run back down the court and shake my teammates hands, it's because I expected to make it. Because I've practiced or I feel I've worked harder than everybody else. So why would I then go nuts, go crazy if I expected to do that? People don't understand that part about me.

y esto a santo de qué? ¿Por mi primer día? No, pensé que te haría feliz, eso es todo.

Here goes nothing might have been an accurate statement, because nothing actually happened.

Because he likes you, Melbourne. That's what guys do. They buy dinner and gifts, hoping that in return you'll—um, like them back.

Estaba preparada para tratar con un compañero o incluso con una inspectora. Para quien no estaba preparada era para Dimitri. Reventó la puerta como si esperase encontrarnos, y en ese terrible momento, con él furioso como una tormenta, entendí por qué Mason lo había llamado 'dios'. • capítulo 9

With a great show of courage, he stepped forward and kissed me. It was nice, though once again a little underwhelming.

I expected to see the most beautiful woman in the world, to feel my heart skip a beat in her presence, and to want to carry her off to bed for a night neither of us will forget. So to answer your question, I got exactly what I expected

What was the correct procedure here? Was he supposed to kiss me? Was I supposed to let him? Had that been the real price of my salad?

Lo he dicho una y otra vez, haría cualquier cosa por ti. Solo sigo esperando algo como: "Adrian, vamos a tomar un baño caliente" o "Adrian, llévame por algo de fondue".

I would have liked to stick my toes in the sand, or ride a tall horse. Today, I will go buy fifty pounds of cat food, and like it.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner or later one shall definitely gets the fruits.

Your family consists of the people you are bound by convention to love but learn to ignore.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When a man tries on clothing from his closet that feels tight, he will assume the clothing has shrunk.

You never know what you're going to get, and children have their own personalities immediately. I was watching little kids on a carousel. Some kids were jumping on the horses; some kids were afraid of the horses; some kids were betting on the horses.

I'm not going to breast-feed. I've put this off so long, I'm sure my milk has expired.

I slept lightly, expecting Fern to awaken during the night missing her truelove. Not that I wanted Fern to be heartbroken. I didn't want her to love someone all her life and then not love or want them at all.

Be careful not to fall in love with the fantasy you imagined instead of what's standing before you.