Quotes About Expectation

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

We still can't control the consequences our choices will bring. Not only do we want freedom of choice, but we also want a guarantee that whatever we choose will be exactly as we envisioned it.

You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.