Quotes About Expectation

strong incentives and weak disincentives for cost underestimation and thus for cost overrun may have taught project promoters what there is to learn, namely that cost underestimation and overrun pay off. If this is the case, cost overrun must be expected and it must be expected to be intentional.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

You want who you want in the summer You get who you want that fall But after you've got who you wanted, it's not The one whom you wanted at all

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

There's all these people waiting, like waiting for something is enough to make it happen. That's the future, having something to wait for. I'm glad I don't have a future then. I hate waiting.

For me, the words 'Anything is possible' haven't served as a bolstering of hope as much as a warning to run for cover

I'm so proud of you!'' I gushed, a statement I've only recently come to realize can be a backhanded compliment, insinuating that the person you're proud of has had to overcome some character flaw to do whatevre they've done to make you proud, so what you're really saying is not that you're proud, but that you're suprised the person has made you proud.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

et le bon temps viendra.

In the United States of Entertainment there is no greater sin than to bore the audience

The far you've come from estimates twice your destination

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

You're either a figure for fucking or a fucking freak. Everyone needs a one-and-only after a while. I'm twenty-two, Zuky-do. Middle aged! A Venus must 'ave an Adonis. Even if it's just for a while. Bronzed, rippling, adoring, preferably, compliant, essentially. Someone to come home to, to cook a pease pudding for of a winter's night. Look at the facts.

So my illnesses create a disturbance? They attack me without warning and leave me insensible wherever I may be. I cannot be expected, before feeling ill, to ask people who happen to be there to leave the room.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

When love is conditional we feel imperfect and unlovable.

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

when we are open to face the true value of an object or person, we can sometimes be disappointed!

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

unhappily, my wife is expecting me in connection with a fish

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

Here's another change I've noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It's what you can't see that you hope you will see, what hasn't been that might be.

memoir is the life we have been waiting for.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him