Quotes About Expectation

Expectant of greater things, We try climbing - Higher And Higher; An effort that costs us much, Leaving us short of breath To find only The ground below is much prettier.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

For to a boy it can seem that he shall never have what he alone has never had.

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

L'auteur n'attend nullement un résumé ou un commentaire argumenté de son livre et il est même préférable que ceux-ci ne lui soient pas donnés, il attend seulement, en préservant la plus grande ambiguïté possible, qu'on lui dise avoir aimé ce qu'il a écrit.

Parce que moi, je vais toujours aux rendez-vous. De toute ma vie, je n'en ai pas raté un seul. J'aime découvrir la personne qui m'attend ou que j'attends. Sa légère inquiétude qui s'évapore à la seconde où je parais. Pour rien au monde je ne manquerais l'évaporation d'une inquiétude.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

Canadians are hardly assertive or demanding. We don't expect U.S. presidents to bow down to our prime ministers when they visit us in Ottawa, nor are we looking for the occasional kickback on an F-16 deal.

Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

I believe that the concept of 'design' encompasses every aspect of customers's exposure to a brand, from the moment they hear about us to the first time they visit our store to the process of ordering and anticipating the arrival of their glasses.

People have gotten to know I visit the gym every day. They are there to meet me every day.

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

I'd heard a lot about Dubai before I first visited and couldn't wait to go.

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I'd find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents' dining room.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

Fans in Madison Square Garden are a little bit hipper, but they are more vocal. It's like, 'Hey, you work for me, bro. I bought this ticket. Now get out there and entertain me.'

The most vocal fans online are girls, which is interesting. I didn't expect that.