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Quotes About Expectation

When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
~ Vin Diesel
Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.
~ Willi Smith
Not everyone wants to be happy
~ Dennis Prager
I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
~ Francis Chan
Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
~ Pete Seeger
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
~ Andrew Young
If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.
~ Bob Saget
When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.
~ Carey Mulligan
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
~ Cass Elliot
Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
~ David A. Bednar
...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.
~ H. L. Mencken
When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.
~ Gladys Knight
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
~ Jonathan Lethem
And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.
~ Lauryn Hill
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
~ Amy Tan
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.
~ Daniel Handler
I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.
~ Gina Carano
I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
~ Janet Jackson
Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
~ Jennifer Aniston
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
~ Jodi Picoult
This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.
~ John Ilhan