Quotes About Expectation

A medida que avanzaba su estado de gravidez, parecía irse despegando irremisiblemente de la realidad y volcándose hacia el interior de sí misma, en un diálogo secreto y constante con la criatura. Esteban

Creyeron que los militares iban a «limpiar» el país. «Se terminó la delincuencia, no hay muros pintarrajeados con graffiti, todo está limpio y gracias al toque de queda los maridos llegan temprano a la casa», me dijo una amiga.

Después de la elección, a todo el mundo le cambio la vida y los que pensaron que podían seguir como siempre, muy pronto se dieron cuenta de que eso era una ilusión

En nu wist ze wat geluk was: dat bereiken waar je al zo lang op heb gewacht

Does staying alive not only for yourself, but also because someone else expects you to, double the life force? Perhaps. Perhaps. Rachel

I have toured New Zealand before and know they love the game, and they are so caring and loving, so I don't expect anything untoward from them.

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.

When you watch zombie movies, and people say, 'What's going on? What are we going to do?' it's like they live in a world where they've never seen zombie movies.

I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would some day graduate from Canada.

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.