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Quotes About Expectation

It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.
~ Ron Kaufman
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected
~ Roy Jenkins
Every time I go out there I expect to win.
~ Roy Oswalt
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
~ Rupert Sanders
By and by never comes.
~ Saint Augustine
I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.
~ Sarah Silverman
It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
~ Seneca the Younger
I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.
~ Sloane Crosley
Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.
~ Stephen King
I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.
~ Taylor Swift
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.
~ Terry Pratchett
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
~ Umberto Eco
For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
~ Wanda Koop
Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.
~ William Allingham
I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.
~ Zoe Kazan
Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas
~ Kelley Armstrong
Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you
~ Lauren Kate
As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
~ Leigh Steinberg
A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat.
~ Leonard Cohen
The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
~ Lev Yilmaz
For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?
~ Maria V. Snyder
I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].
~ Mark Teixeira
It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
~ Markus Zusak