Quotes About Expectation

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!

A patient man gets all that he waits for.

What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

Life never seems to go the way you imagine it will.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will