Quotes About Expectation

It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

as the Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6

Charles Dickens formula for success has it: "Make them laugh. Make them cry. But, most of all, make them wait."6 The

Readers know full well that when a writer takes pains to tell them a character doesn't expect the worst, she's about to get it.

The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack.

You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.

The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.

Trying to force Seneca's approach: believe the worst and you will be prepared when it takes place; by believing the worst, he actually thought he was earning a happy surprise.

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

On a potential husband, "All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.

I love that people think the world is even halfway ready for what we about to bring.

So why was he feeling like this? Why was he feeling like some promise the universe made had been broken?

Nobody ever calls with good news this early in the morning.

We speak of it like it is always possible, but we never truly expect it.

To know what your partner will do is not a proof of love.

Y el público siempre pide lo nuevo, la novedad. Pero ¡si la novedad es tan vieja como el mundo!

When you have that, you dream of this and when you have this, you dream of that. Maybe you call it romantic, but it's just plain stupidity. It destroys life.

They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.

Pero Tito, ¿qué esperabas? -respingó mi tío- ¿qué se casaran y tuvieran muchos hijitos? Es una historia de horror, de eso se trata. Los finales felices son un invento del cine, están pensados para que los espectadores coman más palomitas .

Too much hope could make it harder to accept reality when the time came.

She was expected to recover, but the prognosis was uncertain as to whether she might have