Quotes About Expectation

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.

The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

After such an introduction, I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

In fair weather prepare for foul.