Quotes About Expectation

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

I smiled. He looked like he was waiting

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Tomorrow is a hope, never a promise.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

How wrong people always were when they said: "It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way." No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

When he'd started out, he'd expected to find his brother. What he'd never thought to find was the treasure that slept beside him now. Would you trade this to have Kieran back? It was a choice he was grateful he didn't have to make. But in the end, he knew the truth. Catarina was his life. He would sacrifice anything for her. Anyone.

Why are you so angry? I've come back for you and this is how you greet me? (Morgan) You've come back for me? Oh, how delightful. Shall I put on my best gown or should I just fall down on my knees in gratitude that you finally remembered I exist? (Serenity)

Let us await what will surley come without fear of unforseen concequences

You're never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.

They give me the evil eye every Sunday. In Church. It's like they expect the altar to melt or a million locusts to fly out of my butt.

Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?

We filled in the space but we were never chosen it did hurt but at least we helped them feel okay.We learnt to give love without any expectation it doesn't hurt that way.

The fish you don't catch is always the biggest.

Your new attitude I cannot discuss. But you must understand me. I did not expect you would take up arms for my people because they are my people, but because you were a man who loved justice.

Trying to be patient with people without loving them is like expecting there to be heat without actually lighting the torch.

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.

Granted, I'd waited a long time to hear those words. Would've sold a kidney-maybe two-to have heard them at one point. Now, though...they didn't have the same impact. They were, in fact, an overcooked noodle in the pasta salad of love.

I've found that if you expect the best of a person," Frank told him once, "you generally get it." "What happens when you don't?" Lucas asked. "Live and learn. Emphasis on learn.

It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.

I'd known friends who went through this, the grim tracking of the ovulation cycle, the way making love becomes insemination, as romantic as a turkey baster. One of my college friends, in fact, had said she preferred the turkey baster. "I don't have to pretend that way,