Quotes About Expectation

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.

People fear they won't get what they want.

'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that!

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

You can't always get what you want. But, if you're lucky, you get what you need.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

Most Christians long to see miracles, but they don't want to be put in a position where they will need one.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

Appreciation in advance brings everything you want to you.