Quotes About Expectation

He'd never doubted he would return – he just hadn't expected it to take nineteen years.

He seemed to study her. "I think I might surprise you." She feared that was definitely what might happen.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification.

It's going to be a great day.

Why don't you get dressed. I'll wait downstairs and sort of get a fresh impression.

Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand, what they may expect; but be not too positive and peremptory; and express thyself well, when thou digressest from thy rule. Preserve the right of thy place; but stir not questions of jurisdiction; and rather assume thy right, in silence and de facto, than voice it with claims, and challenges. Preserve likewise the rights of inferior places; and think it more honor, to direct in chief, than to be busy in all.

He grew first to wish to become mad, next to believe that he should become so, and only to be afraid that the expected delirium might not come on soon enough to prevent his appearance for examination before the Lords--a fear, the bare existence of which shows how slight a barrier remained between him and the insanity which he fancied that he longed for.

What writers are expected to write, they write; or else they do not write at all.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

You've got to pay an awful lot for your hotel before you get fresh orange juice. If a hotel has got proper orange juice - and you do expect it if you're abroad - I rank the hotel highly.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping, 'cause my dad sang: I saw him deal with the ills of the music industry, just on the outside looking in.

There are people who want to hear what they consider your hits. There are people who want you to experiment and explore random, rare things. And it's kind of a different; they're two different beasts.

Every year, you can depend on having at least a couple really exciting Nicole Kidman performances, and that's a rare thing.

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

I'm rarely optimistic.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.