Quotes About Expectation

You understand, he says, people don't always take what you give to them. Not every chance is an opportunity. Sometimes a chance is just a waste of time.

I think someone's about to have a really bad chair day.

New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.

What if she never knows the end of the story? She shudders, and her mind continues to lurch forward into the future, that simple expectation of time passing - another moment, and another moment. It seems impossible that it will abruptly cease. It seems impossible that you will never know what happens next, that the thread you've been following your whole life will just... cut off, like a book with the last pages torn out. That doesn't seem fair, she thinks.

Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don't get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.

We were on pins and needles.

DR. CARBLES?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I always thought you had to go to principal

She must be the tallest person in the history of the world! Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

Would it be unreasonable to expect to find fulfilling, enjoyable, spiritually significant, income-producing work?

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

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.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

feedforward — an understanding of what is going to happen before it happens.[17]

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

We love pictures, descriptions, testimonies from folks who've been there, and an idea of what there is to do once we've arrived. Without this information our excitement dims considerably, especially when the place we're thinking about lasts forever.

A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

the illusion of a group hallucination is achieved through the following mechanisms: expectation, anticipation, suggestion, and cross-infection that can begin prior to the hallucination, operate during the experience, and continue to modify the memories of the participants long afterward.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. Right?" "As long as a person doesn't spend all their time preparing for the worst and miss when they stumble across the best.

Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next." "Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.

Because the truth is, I'm always the guy sitting on the curb. Or on the floor of my room. Or wherever. I'm the one who waits for something that never comes.

He feared her, desired her, thought he'd very well kill any man who dared look twice at her, and here she was, expecting him to walk her home, as though he were a — a goddamned gentleman or something. Didn't she know the only one from whom she needed protection was him?