Quotes About Expectation

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!

Sometimes people say they don't know what to do when they are sitting. You only need to sit is an exhortation of the Soto Zen meditation school. It means that you should sit without waiting for a miracle, and that includes the miracle of enlightenment. If you always sit in expectation, you're not in the present moment. The present moment contains the whole of life.

Waiting for your buddies to get laid is right up there with hanging out in a dentist's office.

I'm waiting for the end now, you know! Just as you're waiting for your end. Just as everyone's waiting for their end. Only they don't realize they're waiting and waiting for what I've always been waiting for, namely the end!

?ovje?anstvo se, tako se ?ini, napreže samo dotle dok mora o?ekivati zatupljene svjedodžbe s kojima može trijumfirati pred javnoš?u, a kad ima dovoljno takvih zatupljenih svjedodžaba u ruci, onda se zapusti.

Montañas, resistencias, creadores de decenios destructores... tu expectativa de suicidio que continuamente hace caso omiso de ti.

we often find that our greatest cross occurs in the place where we expected the greatest comfort.

So do men oftentimes find their greatest cross where they expected their greatest comfort.

Where readers of Murdoch can begin a new novel with a quiet confidence, opening a Burgess book is an exercise in anxiety: what the devil is he up to this time?

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information

Some folks want their luck buttered.

He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting.

I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought.

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting - so fanciful are men! - he hastened on...

But nobody did come, because nobody does;

Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.

Why - what the name - began her father. I thought you went out to get the parsley!

the impetuosity of passion unrequited is bearable, even if it stings and anathematizes—there is a triumph in the humiliation, and a tenderness in the strife. This was what she had been expecting, and what she had not got. To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.

They could scarcely feel as a loss what they had never expected to have.

The man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say See! to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply Here! to a body's cry of Where? till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game.