Quotes About Expectation

the visit was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Junior waited more than a year to depart from the company.

Such a time never came.

People don't look for complications. You hear hoofbeats, you look for horses, not zebras.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Reacher

pity the man who gets what he wants. And it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Below us the young guy was talking through the door seal again. His body language was placatory. He was squirming and patting the air and glancing hopefully toward the road. They're coming, I promise. And then they came.

For a military cop, walking into a bar is like a batter stepping to the plate.

Hope for the best.' 'But plan for the worst.

Are you going to write the accident report?" Summer asked. "For Willard? Not yet." "He'll expect it today." "I know. But I'm going to make him ask, one more time." "Why?" "I guess because it's a fascinating experience. Like watching maggots writhing around in something that died." "What died?" "My enthusiasm for getting out of bed in the morning.

But, you know, nobody lives forever. Conceptually these things don't come as a surprise.

this before. I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first. I'm not clear how that works exactly. They started it. They can't expect me to provide a health plan.

That's your call. My philosophy is hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

It's like walking out of a movie. Being made to walk out of a movie that you're really enjoying. That's what worried me about it. I would never know how it turned out.

I'd expected four. Five was going to be harder. But more productive.

Reacher kept quiet. He could see where this game was going. If he said yes, he'd be expected to hurt the guy badly. Which he had no objection to in principle, but he'd prefer to do it on his own terms. If he said no, Borken would call him a coward with no sense of natural justice and no self-respect. An obvious game, with no way to win. So he kept quiet, which was a tactic he'd used a thousand times before: when in doubt, just keep your mouth shut.

Then he checked his watch and waited for midnight. No way to get there faster. The drivers in three and seven were waiting just like him. They nodded, not exactly friendly, not exactly wary. More like a simple same-boat acknowledgment of life's ups and downs.

G. K. Chesterton once said of Charles Dickens, "Dickens didn't write what people wanted. Dickens wanted what people wanted.

He knocked on the door and waited. He counted the seconds in his head. He had knocked on a lot of doors. He knew how it worked. One, they hear the knock, two, they get up off the couch, three, they thread around the clutter, four, they step to the door, five, they open it. The door opened. A guy stood there. On his own, with silence behind him. The

shadow. He checked his watch. The bus

Reacher defaulted to his instinctive position, which was to hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

average height would want

the smart money never bets on the DoD having gotten exactly what it paid for. The

would take at least another hour for