Quotes About Expectation

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.

The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.

Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000