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Quotes About Expectation

There is no such thing as a free lunch
~ Proverb
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
A job interview is like a first date. You dress up, pretend to be someone else and spend the time wondering if youre going to get screwed.
~ Unknown
It's been said good things come to those who wait... All I have to say is whatever is coming to me,better be freaking fantastic!
~ Unknown
A girl called me once and said come over, nobody is home! I went there and she was right, nobody was home
~ Unknown
Life isn't a Burger King. You can't always have it your way.
~ Unknown
Doing a book signing tomorrow at Barnes & Noble. Bring your own book...I haven't written one yet.
~ Daniel Tosh
If I promise you I'll show up fifteen minutes late, I'll always arrive on time.
~ Jarod Kintz
The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.
~ Joan Rivers
One woman I was dating called and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
~ Erma Bombeck
Mr. Right's coming.. but he's in Africa and he's walking!
~ Oprah
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
~ Johnny Carson
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
~ Daniel Tosh
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
~ Oscar Wilde
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi ' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Maybe I'll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It was more fun dreaming about being a movie star than actually being one.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.
~ Marilynne Robinson
In a world of Communist drabness and deprivation, I lived in luxury. I never washed my own clothes. I never ironed. I never cooked. I never even had to clean my room. Everything was done for me. All that was asked of me was to study and be the best.
~ Marina Abramovic
A man needs enough...no less, no more.
~ Marina Lewycka