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Quotes About Expectation

Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.
~ Anouk Aimee
I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score
~ Ricky Davis
Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.
~ Bob Proctor
Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.
~ Amy Sohn
She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.
~ Ali Smith
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
~ Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
~ Lee Patrick Mastelotto
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history
~ Muhammad Ali
I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.
~ Sasheer Zamata
When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
~ Danica McKellar
A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
~ Sigmund Freud
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
~ Hannah Arendt
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
~ Dorothy Parker
They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.
~ Gaylord Perry
At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.
~ Robert Burns
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.
~ Kato
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
~ Lionel Shriver
It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.
~ Mordecai Richler
I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.
~ Neil Gaiman