Quotes About Expectation

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Americans were promised that Obamacare would lower their premiums and that they could keep their current plan if they liked it, but that's not what Americans got.

Rafa Benitez promised me a certain development, but very quickly he took away that promise and it was a totally different situation.

People are so entitled they want things given to them. Nothing is promised to you.

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.

Even if you're doing a film, you're in the news while the shooting is on and during promotions. But once it's over, the limelight fades away, and you wait for something better to come your way.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

With a lot of projects, you never know if it's going to be executed properly. And also, you never know if people are going to respond to it.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

I knew my boyfriend was going to ask me to marry him. And I was sure the ring was going to be exceptional, and I bought him a Rolex Explorer. And I engraved 'yes' on it. And when he proposed, I gave him the watch.

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them.

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

A match against Pakistan is never an easy prospect - especially for goalkeepers in a penalty shootout. We can either become heroes or zeroes.

From facing a manager for the past 16 years to suddenly being the one person everyone is looking at is a daunting prospect. It's something I want to be prepared for. If I get the opportunity, I don't want to let myself down.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

The owners need to have some protection against players jumping from team to team. The fans have the right to expect some continuity on the team they support from year to year.

Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.