Quotes About Expectation

Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Knowing that wishes don't always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there's a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn't look very good.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.