Quotes About Expectation

There's a dolphin's brain in my in-box but come see me in forty-eight hours.

You would describe a tablet as small and white and expect a doctor to respond, at home, after ten at night. Why not tell be it is round? This is crucial to our case.

But it will definitely come. Maybe now, maybe never.

People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

No one knows the day or the hour.

When the phone rang she did not look at it the way they do in the movies. Real people don't look at ringing phones.

Youth is about promise.

However, the majority of people mistakenly judge external things to be 'good' and therefore experience feelings of desire for things beyond their control, leading to frustration and suffering.

I sit down on the curb, outside the Opera. People passing look at me. I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is cooled by the dull gravy of common sense once more

Always think positively and expect the best.

The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it's the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We've become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can't speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.

THE JOURNEY EVERY CUSTOMER TAKES

What we think we are saying to our customers and what our customers actually hear are two different things.

One of the biggest hindrances to business success is that we think customers can read our minds.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's good to be expected.

You don't suppose they're really expecting figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer," I muttered. "I thought your history professor friend said that historically accurate wassail would be mulled beer." "I'll put on the coffee," Michael said, heading downstairs. "I rather think that would be the suitable Southern Baptist equivalent.

Sex, no matter how explosive and emotional, was just sex after all, at least until someone said or did something to make it more than that

He heard a page turning beside him: Paola obviously had kept some text secreted about her person or under the cushion where she sat, left there in the event that life presented her with the necessity of spending three minutes with nothing to read.

Then, as if Truth had reminded her to whom she was speaking, she added, 'But I wasn't surprised.

Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.

I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future.

Five minutes before Julian arrived, they might be slouched in the living room -- curtains drawn, dinner simmering on chafing dishes in the kitchen, everyone tugging at collars and dull-eyed with fatigue -- but the instant the doorbell rang their spines would straighten, conversation would snap to life, the very wrinkles would fall from their clothes.

I felt like a lifetime had come and gone since my night with Pippa and I thought how happy I'd been, rushing to meet her in the sharp-edged winter darkness, my elation at spotting her under a streetlamp out in front of Film Forum and how I'd stood on the corner to savor it - the joy of watching her watch for me. Her expectant watching-the-crowd face. Me she was watching for: me. And the heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.

But those sparkling blue shallows- so enticing at first glance- had not yet graded off into depths, so that sometimes I got the disconcerting sensation of wading around in knee-high waters hoping to step into a drop-off, a place deep enough to swim.