Quotes About Expectation

It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

It's very frustrating not being on the air.

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

It's not so much frustrating, it's just that if you don't know when you are going to play, how do you focus on a game? That's part of football, though, and if you are going to be at a big club you have to deal with it.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'

If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

When you expect something, there's also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

People expect me to be funnier.

Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

We stare at the wonders of the world, dulled-eyed, underwhelmed.

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him.

It wasn't as if we were waiting for a train, it wasn't as if we were waiting for a meal - it was just that there were was nothing to wait for. Nothing.

It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

The worst thing never quite comes.

She had not expected him to remember her at all and her hard little heart grew quite warm.

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans