Quotes About Expectation

were actually pretty hilarious—he hoped

For years, every moment I wasn't dancing was a moment I was waiting to dance.

Y]ou can't control everything. Anything, really. Like the food we've been making. We can follow the recipe exactly as your grandmother wrote it, do everything exactly--or almost exactly--as she had, and the dish can come out so-so instead of amazing. Or it can come out amazing when you were expecting very little.

Everything comes at its appointed moment. —Joseph R. Sizoo

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

Cherish the hope that lies beneath the snow.

Sometimes codependents were blamed; sometimes they were ignored; sometimes they were expected to magically shape up (an archaic attitude that has not worked with alcoholics and doesn't help codependents either).

When we don't get close to people, at least we know what to expect: nothing.

Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

I believe that I shall become a curmudgeon. Then at least I can complain, and it will be expected of me.

And revenge generally turns out to be a lot less satisfying than you think it will be.

By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here!

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

It is only a fairy tale. They always end sadly.

I like clever people. Dull ones irritate me, especially those who expect to be told what to do, and if they are not told, do nothing, even when something that needs doing is right in front of them.

We grow to deserve what we need to believe... Since I've known you I've been careful not to pray out loud Wishes have a way of coming true when you least expect...

beat upon the door.

Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it.

Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself

we the people should expect integrity from the news media and unbiased reporting of newsworthy events.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

Once more, and for the fourth time, the war would most definitely not be over by Christmas.