Quotes About Expectation

Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn't happened this morning, either.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!