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Quotes About Expectation

he sits and waits and hopes that at some
~ James Frey
There is no getting into the future except by waiting.
~ James Gleick
'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.
~ Andre Aciman
When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.
~ Kenneth Lay
Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.
~ William Godwin
When you come to a new team there's always uncertainty about how they're going to respond.
~ Quique Setien
We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
~ Marcelene Cox
No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
~ Lisa Kudrow
I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.
~ Sigourney Weaver
Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.
~ Sophie B. Hawkins
A little scruff looks nice, but it feels so uncomfortable. Think about how a guy wants a girl to have smooth legs: It's expected. Shouldn't a guy be expected to do the same on his face? I think that's only fair.
~ Brooklyn Decker
'Chhichhore' is one of my most finest products till date. In films like this, you expect less but you get more. It is an underdog film. I am sure people will like it.
~ Sajid Nadiadwala
You always underestimate - rather than be disappointed.
~ Malcolm Young
I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.
~ Kim Kardashian
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.
~ Cheryl Cole
I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.
~ James McAvoy
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.
~ Jonah Lehrer
I think that Rey Mysterio should come to 'Lucha Underground,' and I hope that he does.
~ John Morrison
I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist.
~ Corinne Bailey Rae
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
~ Richard Gere
Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.
~ Dave Barry