Quotes About Expectation

It's just that I didn't understand when I met you. After your first Games, I thought the whole romance was an act on your part. We all expected you'd continue that strategy. But it wasn't until Peeta hit the force field and nearly died that I —" Finnick hesitates.

I prepare myself for the worst.

I wasn't going to tell you until after the Hunger Games . . ." She fell silent. "But now you have to," he said. "Or, I'll imagine the worst things possible. Please, just tell me.

Gregor bluntly. "As our guest, I hope," replied Vikus. "Although Queen Luxa has no doubt ordered

Haymitch said you wanted to talk to me," I say. "Look at you, for starters." It's like he's waiting for me to transform into a hybrid drooling wolf right before his eyes.

Oh, right, I'm supposed to be pregnant, I think. While I'm trying to think what that means and how I should act, maybe throw up or something, Finnick has positioned himself at the edge of the water.

it took them long enough to show up,

How many of us have gazed at a man and thought, 'yes, him,' only to have him pay his attentions to someone else? And how many of us have sighed and waited for some other gentleman to come forward? All I wish to ask is, why? Why not strike up a conversation? Why not determine for ourselves whether 'he' is the one? Why leave it to fate?" A LADY'S GUIDE TO PROPER BEHAVIOR, 2ND EDITION

If you ask for an opinion, expect to receive one, and don't make fun of it.

Then they took us to the birthing suite, which I call the electronic bullshit room because it's full of all sorts of electronic bullshit we can't fathom but are just glad to have on principle.

RHODA 2022 - She liked to come out here when the first craggy fingers of dawn were breaking across the horizon. When she could hear nothing but the lap of the water against her ears as she floated on her back, turned away from the shore and gazing out as the morning sun broke cover. When the world rotated and another day tempted her with promises of good times and better things to come, and when she hoped that by the time the earth had turned on its axis, those promises would be fulfilled

We should always prepare for the tests that we know about. After all, there are so many that surprise us.

People who succeed do not expect every company to reward fairly; they screen for companies that will recognize their contribution," wrote Warren Farrell, Ph.D. in The Myth of Male Power.2

Thought you said this was just dinner?" Abe opens the glass door and holds it for me. As I pass by him, he lowers his head so that his voice is close to my ear. "It's never just dinner.

I'll expect you and your . . . guy friend in the front row. Paying very close attention." "Wow," I say. "What will you ever do if I get a boyfriend?

People are looking at you, Katniss. You've given them an opportunity." ~Gale Hawthorne

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

It's like you always think that when you get to a goal, you'll be happy. But then there is always something else that interests you.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

I've known Greg Berlanti from way back. I've done two shows with him, and both times, he was like, 'I've got something good for you,' and they did not disappoint.

I wait for something good or something that will be fun. But they've got to pay me if they want me to work.