Quotes About Expectation

Jim Acheson, our designer, told me I looked like his Auntie Wyn and I have never forgotten it. I wondered if it was the way I walked or wore my hat, but Jim just said that I had some indefinable air of an aunt. It was then I began to hope that one day I might play Lady Bracknell.

Real fear, he now knew, took its power not from what could happen but what you realize will happen.

It wasn't often that you got to see a man whose dreams were literally about to come true, but then the lights went down, and I couldn't see him anymore.

It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it, buffer the passage of time. To keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Es un proceso llamado Recuperación del Servicio -, dijo Mort. - Cuando algo no ocurre del modo que alguien lo espera, el reparto hace un esfuerzo adicional para corregirlo. No quieren que nadie salga de aquí desilusionado, por lo que tienen la práctica de hacer que las cosas regresen a un estado de equilibrio.

There is a strange thing about anticipation," Fionchadd told him. "It is generally both more and less than the actuality that follows. A thing desired is rarely as pleasant to possess as it is to anticipate; a thing dreaded is rarely so foul.

Parents' Rule: Always give trust slightly in advance of demonstrated trustworthiness.

In football, you never know what can happen tomorrow. This is the elite, and you have to be ready for any situation that can occur.

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

I don't expect people to know my name. I don't get offended if people don't know me.

It's a much easier job when you know what to expect on offense.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.

I don't think I am restricting myself to doing only comedy; I am hoping that someone offers me something else.

I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

I had dreams of becoming an officer and a gentleman. But hey: One out of two ain't bad.

What I have made very clear to my ministers is that I expect them to provide briefings on legislation and any issues pertaining to their electorate. Now I understand some ministerial staffers and offices have gone beyond that and I'll be speaking to my ministers that that will stop.

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.