Quotes About Expectation

Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.

I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.

When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.

I don't ever assume that people are going to love or appreciate what I do. It would be great. I don't assume that they're not going to. I just am like, 'I'm going to do my absolute best at everything I do, and I'm going to put it out with pride and hope people enjoy it.'

I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.

I didn't want to get into any Amazon Prime Video show just like that. I was waiting for a big series to come where the script is good, the role is good and where there's great talent.

I thought I would be Prime Minister.

Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.