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Quotes About Expectation

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.
~ David Wroblewski
I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
~ Esther Williams
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
~ Aesop
Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
~ Arthur Golden
You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.
~ B. B. King
I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!
~ Brian Tracy
I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.
~ Brian Tracy
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
~ Joseph Addison
I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.
~ Joss Whedon
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I want more out of life than I've gotten.
~ Loretta Lynn
The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
~ Lou Brock
I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
~ Martial
I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?
~ Mike Tyson
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.
~ Noel Gallagher
The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.
~ Rob Lowe
I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
~ Sylvia Kristel
We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
~ Timothy Keller
The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.
~ Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.
~ Roseanne Barr