Quotes About Expectation

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

THOSE THAT HOPE LITTLE CANNOT GROW MUCH." —George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel

Give the people what they want" is only half sound. What they want and what they get are fused by some mysterious alchemy. The press, the lecturer, the screen and the public lead and are led by each other.

On the whole, as the morbid & mucilaginous monkey said when he climbed up to the top of the Palm-tree & found no fruit there - one can't depend upon dates.

life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

If you do this, what do you want to happen? and If you do this, what do you think will happen?

I didn't expect to win, since the odds were slightly against me, but as I expected to build a device to successfully predict roulette and had never gambled before, it was time to get casino experience. I knew virtually nothing about casinos, their history, or how they operated. I was like a person who had glanced at recipes but never been in a kitchen.