Quotes About Expectation

You understand that the defilements promise you so much but that they never actually deliver.

It's like a person who on Monday works all day but gets no money at the end of the day."What am I doing this for?" he thinks. He works all day Tuesday and still gets nothing. Another bad day. All day Wednesday and Thursday he works, and still nothing to show for it. Four bad days in a row. Then along comes Friday. He does exactly the same work as before, and at the end of the day the boss gives him his wages. Wow! Why can't every day be a payday?

After twenty years of living the barren life, I want to believe that now all of my patient dreams will at last be realized

He opened his mouth and out came a rainbow, he thought, recalling the proverb about a person who talks a bigger game than he can deliver.

WHAT DO WE WANT?! PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! NOW!

You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

My kidneys were expecting orange juice. Silly kidneys.

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Goals are not the same as tasks or activities. A goal is an expectation of an end condition, whereas both activities and tasks are intermediate steps (at different levels of organization) that help someone to reach a goal or set of goals.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

We all hope for love, enjoy it and desire it, but expecting and demanding it of others fouls up a good relationship.

Was it too much to expect a future?

Utah, just waiting for the word to be given by the

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Waiting for her in reception, pretending to read a paper, he was surprised by his own nervousness; an indication of how little one knew oneself. She

Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—

Both figuratively and literally, entitled people expect your signature on the front of the checks, and theirs on the back.

an actor friend of mine calls the 'John Wayne status.' " "What's that?" The question brought a small smile to her face. "Wayne never performed until he finished his morning's business. Usually, he was regular. But every so often, he was stymied. Sometimes there would be hundreds of people on the set milling about for hours, waiting for one man to have a bowel movement.

For most of us church folks, the norm has been defined by what we have or haven't experienced up to this point. Another way of saying this is we've allowed our experience to define normal. What we experience determines what is normal; what we consider to be normal is authoritative, and thus our experience becomes our authority. What we have or haven't experienced sets the bar for what we do and don't expect from God.