Quotes About Expectation

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.

He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

Panda gazed at her plastic-bag pregnancy. "Here I am, about to be a father, and the sex wasn't even that good." She fought the urge to apologize.

Tenía la mala costumbre de asumir lo que otras personas harían o lo que haría ella en su lugar.

Si comienzas a imaginar cosas que no van a ocurrir, lo único que conseguirás es salir herida.

You'd better be worth it, studmuffin. - Phoebe to Dan

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Besides, nobody ever loves you the way you want.

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.

really hadn't wanted to miss

What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat.

I'm a librarian in town,' she began. 'You sure about that?' The words popped out before he could stop them. Annabelle raised her eyebrows. 'Fairly. It's my job and so far no one has told me to go away when I show up for work.' smooth, Stryker, he thought, very smooth. 'I was expecting someone wearing glasses. You know. Because librarians read a lot.' The raised eyebrows turned into a frown. 'You need to get out of the barn more.

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

For some, the Betty Crocker Kitchens experience was a tearful one. "Betty Crocker isn't one woman,". visitors were told, "but many women who work under her name." ... People don't usually travel all the way to the North Pole, meet the elves, and then find out the truth about Santa. But what happened at the Betty Crocker Kitchen was "worse because Betty was their hero.

I know that God loves you. And that He's not interested in obeying your plans. He's interested in giving you the best. And all you need to do is believe that. When you know God loves you, then faith is simply the expectation that God will show up, that love in hand.

I don't deserve the best." Mona's voice broke. "None of us do. But while we were still sinners, God chose to give us His best, and He will do nothing less after we are adopted as His children. We don't deserve grace, but because of God's character, we can expect it! If this dream is from Him, then you can expect Him to make it come true.

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

Sometimes the expectation is better than the fulfillment.

People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it

Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all?