Quotes About Expectation

Economic, financial, and political predictors… are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients—and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Fear is nothing but anticipation of pain, be it physical,emotional,spiritual, or mental

They are, in fact, Cheaters, luring men into the foaming waters of carnality without even the vaguest possibility of conception. What a delight, what a subversion of expectation. The healthiest and most womanly of women are in fact a rendition of Amazon queens, self-possessed and self-defined, women whose bodies have an enviable integrity and a fleshy, nonreplicative beauty that razzes Charles Darwin. The buck, the stud, the bull, stops here.

If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also keep you from writing.

Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along—consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about.

Today is today and tomorrow may come late this year.

Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment—that which they cannot anticipate.

fulfill all his promise.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

How many thousands have I spent on perfume and alcohol, cigarettes and Turkish baths, disappointing trips and third-class movies; how many months in silent bars or parks, expecting, in a chair with a book not reading, or waiting in line, waiting in line? Who will tell me it's a loss when I know life must be for pleasure? The parks were balanced by museums, the baths by oceans, bars by composition, and the dreaming chair by books finished. Nothing is waste that makes a memory.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

I walked with them, as crowds have that effect on me, I want to do what they do, to journey towards some point of revelation, which of course never comes

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

The more attractive and athletic the character depicted on the T-shirt, the less attractive and athletic the fan wearing it

Assume the spirit, the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and you will have opened the windows to receive the blessing. To assume a state is to get into the spirit of it. Your triumphs will be a surprise only to those who did not know your hidden passage from the state of longing to the assumption of the wish fulfilled.

You can take anyone and represent him to yourself as the man (or woman) you would like him to be and, if you do not waver in that representation, he will conform to it.

hardship had been part of history for so long it had become a condition of life. There was no expectation things could, or would, be otherwise. You got on with it, and through faith, family and character accommodated as best you could whatever suffering and misfortune was yours.