Quotes About Expectation

He gave orders and he expected results. And she didn't know what it said about her that she found that particular trait delicious. It made her all warm and shivery inside.

want your obedience. I expect it—no, I demand it. I don't relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So if you seek to bait me so that you enjoy the thrill of discipline, you're sure to be disappointed.

From what they've told me, I definitely think it's a good idea for you to go. But I'll be very disappointed if you don't come home shitfaced in a sexy dress and fuck-me shoes. It's all I've been tortured with ever since the last time they all went out. Now that I get to participate firsthand, have to say I'm looking forward to it.

The one thing she'd learned in life was that family was a fickle concept. There was no loyalty. If she couldn't expect such a thing from her own clan, how could she expect it from complete strangers? She nodded grimly to herself. Aye, she needed to pull her head from the clouds and view her mission with more objectivity. She was a captive. Nothing more. To forget such was to open herself up for more disappointment.

It's truly weird how everyone just thinks they can bring me Diet Coke and everything will be okay. Especially since it's pretty much true.-Lizzie Nichols

But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . .

This year, everything is going to be different. No one in Fischer Hall is going to die this year. Not even accidentally." "How are you going to manage that?" Coop asks, gnawing on a Chinese sparerib. "Bubble wrap all your residents?

I do not expect Henrique Mauricio to conform to my standards of behavior, Alaric said. I expect him not to do things that make me want to pound his face into a bloody pulp. Sadly, every time I meet him he fails to live up to this expectation.

Did you let him know that if he can't see fit to return your blow job immediately, you will have no choice but to sue?

front hallway while they were gone.

Ah, said the magus, understanding at once. I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again. Surely that's unlikely, said Sounis. I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us, said the magus.

I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.

Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably a closet cleaned out to make room for him. Hard to believe the royal apartments, so lavish elsewhere, would otherwise have such a plain corner. Expecting better of royal closets, Costis went to bed disappointed.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.

Today was the first day of the rest of my life. It was okay, I think the second day of the rest of my life will be better

The elevator door opens right into the loft. I was counting on those extra few seconds of hallway before facing the party, the party we are now part of and in, a party with people talking and laughing and having a party time. I think, I am a solid, trying to do a liquid's job.

I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.

You're correcting my grammar now? Yes, I'm helping you to be better. And I expect the same from you. What if I don't want to be better? Then you'll be just a petulant, infinitive-splitting eavesdropper.

She looked like someone who was used to having other people wait on her. I wonder what that's like, to never have to worry about filling the silence.

Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.

M.F. you're better than this. -K.M.

For some reason, Eliza had always thought Alexander Hamilton would be dark-haired, but he was in fact a ginger