Quotes About Expectation

von Kluck's cavalry reconnaissance, with that marvelous human capacity to see what you expect to see even if it is not there, duly reported the British to be disembarking at Ostend, Calais, and Dunkirk on August 13.

That vexing problem of war presented by the refusal of the enemy to behave as expected in his own best interest beset them.

Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?

I made it to the moon and nothing changed.

You've got to be responsible for your own happiness -- you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

You said this was going to be funny, Jim," Waits barked. "Maybe you better just circle the jokes 'cause I don't see 'em.

We gotta wait for your dad to park the car. Then we gotta hear the Epic Saga.

If I have to err, it's on the side of assuming the worst. This way, if I'm wrong, I can always apologize. Or send flowers. You err on the other side, the flowers will be coming to you.

Ich war fünf. Mit fünf weiß man nicht, was man zu erwarten hat. Man weiß auch mit zwölf nicht, was man zu erwarten hat. Vielleicht weiß man nie, was man zu erwarten hat.

Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.

You can't rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time.

Less than I want. More than I deserve.

Life is so much easier when you just give people what they expect.

We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn't satisfy us to the degree that we expect.

But what a man sees still must depend on what he looks for. While I have eyes of my own, I shall not need to borrow yours.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

most of life occurs in the hollows between expectation and reality.

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement?

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

But that night, the future was still blank. The film had not been shot, the bromide was still in its brown glass bottle. Nothing had been fixed.

Like usual, what I want is not important, what I'm supposed to do that counts.