Quotes About Expectation

Everybody thinks it's going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. - Les Brown An

The biggest temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton

I rolled my eyes. "Kit is looking for a job in Nova Scotia." "Canada?" Despite everything, Hi chuckled. "Have a good time, eh ? Don't fight with any moose. Meese. Whatever." "Shut up." Against all expectation, I giggled. At least I had my friends.

we both know phone inquiries aren't handled that fast. It's been only twenty-four hours since Plato Lowery was informed of the situation. He

the guy had a hot date

waited in the passenger seat of

Do they expect us to have sex right here on the kitchen table?" Gunner, who was chewing a piece of toast, paused, considered the idea, and then shook his head. "Too messy. We'd get sugar everywhere. Plus, Cressy might walk in, and then I'd have to get her a second horse.

People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.

Sometimes reality is better than dreams

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

Flirting is the promise of sex with no guarantee. A successful brand, then, is the promise and guarantee of a mind shattering experience each and every time.

Hi, this is Keith Ferrazzi. I'm just calling back because I haven't heard from Michael." Here again, without being too pushy, you begin to create the presumption that his return call is imminent and expected.

A successful brand, then, is the promise and guarantee of a mind-shattering experience each and every time.

He was getting to be a certain age, he thought. It was the age when his never-to-be-written masterpieces had begun to outweigh the masterpieces he was still going to write.

You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.

Life should come with such a statement. No Promises. Just lots of hope.

The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.

WYTIWYG" (pronounced "witty-wig"): What You Test Is What You Get.

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

We get the place on the right swell, surfing it is one thing, getting good shots is something else. You get fog up there. You get rain. You get clouds. The light is shit. Harmon knows that too. That's why he asked for you. Radical conditions, a narrow window. You better have somebody who can get the shot. His problem is, he thinks you're still the one.

If you fall in a cactus patch, you kin expect to pick stickers.