Quotes About Expectation

The woman in purple subjected Jack to a critical inspection. "You must be Jack. Jane succeeded in part of her mission, at least." And then: "You don't look at all as I expected." "Fewer horns?" said Jack tersely.

Patience, she said in her best governess voice, is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Magellan expected to see all four captains at Easter mass but only one, Luis de Mendoza, of Victoria, arrived.

Key West—a town of people passing through, looking around, waiting, hoping for something special to happen, then not having a clue what was going on when it did.

I knew I wouldn't get an invitation. I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.

You never think about the mall being closed. It's always supposed to be there, like milk in the refrigerator or God.

I feel like any minute a guy in a lavender suit will burst into the room with a microphone and bellow, Another alternate-reality moment brought to you by Adolescence!

our culture has the expectation that the memories of a happy childhood will somehow ground you and prepare you for adult life. But what about the memories that cut, that wound, that won't heal?

There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

Never make a promise which you think is hard to keep. Never make a promise though!!

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.