Quotes About Expectation

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life

If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.

Life is never quite like the brochure.

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.