Quotes About Expectation

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

What emerged from the portal was not the feared armada. Instead, it was a single ship. A familiar ship. I felt a quickening in my atoms.Clever, dangerous girl. I have been expecting you.

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'

A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about

Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage

A fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

When I was young, the future was where all the good stuff was kept, the party clothes, the pretty china, the family silver, the grown-up jobs. The future was a land of its own, and we couldn't wait to get there. Not that youth wasn't great, but it came with disadvantages; I remember the feeling I was missing something really good that was going on somewhere else, somewhere I wasn't. I remember feeling life passing me by. I remember impatience. I don't feel that way now.