Quotes About Expectation

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive.

What one deserves and what one experiences are seldom congruent.

How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?

In combat situations, your choices can be judged based only against what you knew at the time. To expect anything more of a soldier is to demand that he or she be superhuman. Which seems, to me, unreasonable.

see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Then why, Michael asked are you expecting perfection out of yourself? Do you really think you're that much better than the rest of us? That your powers make you a higher quality of human being? That your knowledge places you on a higher plane than everyone else on this world?

Try not to look like that, Ascher said under breath, after we were in the elevator. Like what? I asked. Like you're expecting ninjas to leap out of the trash cans. This is a party. Everyone knows there's no such things as ninjas, I scoffed. But it will be something. Count on it.

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden

Ma'am, the way this usually works is that I ask you a question, and then you tell me a lie. If you give me a dishonest answer before I have the chance to ask the question, it offends my sense of propriety." Her

I'll be patient," I said. "But not forever.

I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited.

You wish answers? Yes. How can you expect to get them, when you do not yet know the proper questions?

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here.

Maybe I'll bump into you again sometime." "I'd like that. Only next time without the gun." "One of those old-fashioned girls, huh?" I said.

For the first time ever, Mickey Mouse let me down.

Don't care how Titanic you are. No one expects an orbital-drop grizzly.

Michael was looking at me very oddly as he lowered the Sword. "What?" I asked him. "Charity," he predicted, "is not going to be pleased.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

Telefonun çalm?yorsa bil ki benim.

A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.

plan as though Jesus is not returning for a hundred years and live as though Jesus is returning today.

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.