Quotes About Expectation

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

What motivates me is that the best is yet to come.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

Purgatory was a bit damp,' said Bengt, 'but heaven was more or less as I'd imagined it.

Purgatory was a bit damp, said Bengt, but heaven is more or less as I'd imagined it.

Besides, I know the Athenian character from experience: you like to be told pleasant news, but if things do not turn out in the way you have been led to expect, then you blame your informants afterwards. I therefore thought it safer to let you know the truth.

We expect God's presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair.

La gente era agradable de ver, sana y elegante, pero impaciente: parecían no estar satisfechos nunca.

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

Building the Mean Streak was not a mistake. We needed a wooden coaster and we were hoping for a Beast. But it was never on the same planet as the Beast. Nothing has ever come close to the Beast.

Or Kiowa teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them whooping and leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a mixture of fascination and giggly horror. Afterward, Rat said, 'So where's the rain?' and Kiowa said, 'The earth is slow, but the buffalo is patient,' and Rat thought about it and said, 'Yeah, but where's the rain?

Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else. People

She walked up on the snake. Did she really expect not to get bitten?

Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.

The Americans would claim thirty-seven kills, quite a score since they had expected a total of only twenty-seven Russian aircraft. In fact, of twenty-six MiGs, only five undamaged aircraft remained

It described a horse without telling the listener how he intended to use the horse.

despite the green eyeshade and the garters on the sleeves.

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ

there is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.

even though, as children, we hear our parents complaining every night about their bosses or co-workers, it doesn't put us off the world of work. We think it will be different for us.

the big day hadn't gone the way she'd hoped, not that big days ever did. Birthdays

I was supposed to have a son.

she kept checking her e-mail every five minutes, carrying the phone everywhere she went, just in case he decided to get in touch while she was in the shower or the laundry room.