Quotes About Expectation

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it that way." -The Host

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

Give your customers what they want today, and help them see tomorrow.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?