Quotes About Expectation

Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.

Sometimes when you sign to label as a black artist, they expect you to have a certain appeal. It's like they think they know what appeals to your people better than you do.

I don't mind an arranged marriage. The girl my parents choose could be the girl of my dreams.

I didn't know much at all about YG before I arrived there the first day. It felt like something far removed from me. I never thought I'd actually be doing it for real.

I'm going to Arsenal to play.

Consequently she watched him with all her eyes, all her mind; and by giving herself up to hopes that were sometimes flourishing, sometimes blighted, she had brought the matter to such enormous proportions that she saw all things in a mental mirage. To use a common but excellent expression, by dint of looking intently she saw nothing.

Chesnel was clear-sighted so long as Victurnien was not there before him. One by one he lost the illusions which the Marquis and his sister still fondly cherished. He saw that the young fellow could not be depended upon in the least, and wished to see him married to some modest, sensible girl of good birth, wondering within himself how a young man could mean so well and do so ill, for he made promises one day only to break them all on the next.

You are like the peasant," said Sallenauve, laughing, "who, expecting the end of the world, did not sow his wheat.

If you pay court to a young girl whose existence is a compound of loneliness, despair, and poverty, and who has no suspicion that she will come into a fortune, good Lord! it is quint and quatorze at piquet;

You should not expect a monster to change, even at the end of a fairy tale. For in a children's story, the monster must be killed. If he remains alive, his nature will be limned. There is no gentling of an abomination.

Are you quite certain you won't mind having a virgin on your hands?" Not that she imagined she would remain that way for much longer. The penis pressing against her seemed to say that her time as a virgin was down to mere minutes.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

En lo que no tiene razón. Que me guste desesperadamente, muy bien. Pero que vaya yo a exigir el pago de un pagaré de amor firmado sobre una carpeta de meningitis, ¡diablo! eso no.

I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. And for once it might be grand To have someone understand I want so much more than they've got planned…

Was it better then - measuring the loss - not to know happiness at all? Better to go through life waiting for what never came, because that way you had less to mourn?

Come over,' he said. 'I'll order in Chinese.' 'You speak Chinese now?' 'Funny guy, Libor. Be here at eight.' 'You sure you're up for it?' 'I'm a philosopher, I'm not sure about anything.'..

El lector espera que seas tú el que tenga algo que decir sobre la vida, porque para eso pagamos a los escritores.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

How leaders embody the values they espouse sets a tone, an expectation, that guides their employees' behaviors.

I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story !

It makes tomorrow alright.