Quotes About Expectation

He was a man, and it was expected of him to achieve.

Your dream of being discovered by the public will become the burden of being defined.

You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?

Udati se za muškarca isto je što i kupiti nešto ?emu smo se dugo divili u izlogu. Predmet koji smo kupili volimo i kad ga donesemo ku?i, ali to ne zna?i da se on nužno uklapa u sve ostalo.

Don't stop looking over your shoulder. You never know what's about to happen.

She decided that this kind of waiting - waiting for something good and bad tangled together - should be given its own special name.

There was something wonderful - something potent even - about a present before it's unwrapped. Especially an unexpected one. Anything could be inside.

Now we get angry if the network is slow, but before, when we were innocent, we had no thoughts of the network at all.

Do you know if a kangaroo can jump higher than a house? Of course it does, a house does not jump at all. 2.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

I don't have to write to South West buddy. In an hour South West gonna come looking for me!

Such a hope, such a psychology of expectation, fused the California experience irretrievably onto a dream of better days: of a sudden, almost magical, transformation of the ordinary. Ironically, such an expectation was also reprising the dreams of the Spanish conquistadores, explorers, and maritime adventurers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Spanish quest for El Dorado was now being Americanized with its psychological and mythic hold as powerful as ever.

She is prettier than her picture had prepared me for, blond curls, big blue eyes, like a fake child that someone would make in order to convince people to have children.

Timothy was already there, his hands clasped together on the table like he was ready to pray or like he was your boss and was really sorry but he was going to have to fire you.

He felt certain that he was a failure, every artistic endeavor ending with his own surprise at how little had come from it. Perhaps that was how life worked, the expectation of success after each failure the engine that kept the world turning. Perhaps retrogression was an artistic endeavor in itself. Perhaps he might sink so far that he would find himself, somehow, returned to the surface.

You are going to have such an amazing life, Frankie," he told me. "If this is how it starts? It's almost breathtaking how good your life will be.

had never wanted kids, because I had never wanted a man to give me a kid. The thought of it, gross; the expectation of it. But if a hole in the sky opened up and two weird children fell to Earth, smashing into the ground like meteroites, then that was something I could care for. If it gleamed like it was radiating danger, I'd hold it. I would. "Are

Honey, I've been to Graceland. It's, you know, smaller than you think. It's really garish, but it's not worth driving that far to see it. I mean . . . he's no Jackson Browne.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

A QUESTION OF SALARY Santa was filling up an application form for a job. He was not sure as to what to put in the column 'Salary Expected'. After much thought he wrote : 'Yes, please.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

this was Irene's arrival in Cambodia, her entire being narrowed to a single pinpoint of expectation as the pinnacles atop the towers sparked and burst into flame.

I've always felt uncomfortable giving people what they want or expect.