Quotes About Expectation

Only one shopping day left 'til tomorrow.

Behold, this dreamer cometh.

Prisoners of hope.

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

Why am I always the bridesmaid,Never the blushing bride?

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

You're right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in sixty years.

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

When it comes to skiing, there's a difference between what you think it's going to be like, what it's really like, and what you tell your friends it was like.

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.

Good things come to those who bait.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

Many people in Western Europe in the year 1000 expected the world to come to an end. But instead of ending, conditions of life - particularly in the Low Countries - began to improve.

On Friday evening Martin and Mona went to the United Artists Theatre to see a film already being mentioned for the Academy award. It had three stars, ran a hundred and ten minutes, and bored them both to petrifaction. (In brief, the award was in the bag.) The Case of the Seven of Calvary

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

Then say to this person, "I have no right to make any demands on you." In saying that, you will drop your expectation. "I have no right to make any demands on you. Oh, I'll protect myself from the consequences of your actions or your moods or whatever, but you can go right ahead and be what you choose to be. I have no right to make any demands on you.