Quotes About Expectation

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.

Don't go watching reality TV thinking your going to find a role model.

I think probably everyone can relate to wanting to believe that your parents are one thing, and having to come to the realization that they might not be.

I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there's always a little bit of a letdown. It's like, 'Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.'

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there's enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.

On 'Modern Family,' we have outlines, really strong outlines, when we go off to draft, so you have a reasonable expectation that that will be the story of your episode.

It has always been the case that people on out-of-work benefits have to apply for more or less any job they can reasonably be expected to take. But the operative word there is 'reasonable,' because a job that's appropriate for a single, able bodied 22-year-old man may very well not be appropriate for a single mum who can't afford childcare.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then Gran in overdrive is not an equation that balances.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.

Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.

You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

Students take out loans with the expectation that they will receive an education that sets them up for success - yet too many students are left with enormous debt from predatory institutions and no education to show for it.

I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.