Quotes About Expectation

Eve was sure he was saluted at birth by the obstetrician instead of spanked.

It's television, dear. Nobody expects it to be real, just convincing." Eve was about to tell her mom that her life is real, that her cases are real, that not everything on TV is scripted and performed, but then she thought about that press conference and realized she was wrong.

People go to a hospital to get fixed up and then return home. But people generally go to a nursing home fully expecting to get worse and die

I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

The future ain't what it used to be - and what's more, it never was.

a woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It's better to expect it, you know. You're becoming a woman now, so you should be told this. For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely. A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life?but no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard. No one will take care of a poor woman?just ourselves.

Those who don't expect to win, don't win. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Yawn. String-on-a-stick. Fine. I'll come out and chase it to make you happy.

The present is pregnant with the future.

Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.

This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn't happen quite that way.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

Hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed.

Imagining the worst doesn't keep it from happening