Quotes About Expectation

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Every coach in the league does an unbelievable job, and they're prepared and think you're going to outcoach people, or you think that you're going to surprise, but you don't.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

You never reach a point where you feel completely 'ready' - there's always more you can do. But I think every team and driver is going to be feeling uncertain going into the pre-season.

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A wedding invitation is a gift subpoena.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.