Quotes about expectation

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“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”

“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”

“… you expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread."
"Not necessarily…. You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.”

“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

“I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”

“I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.”

“It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.”

“Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.”

“Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.”

“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

“My leg hurts," the soldier whined.

"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?”

“Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

“My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.”

“we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.”

“i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.”

“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”

“Jem" I have an assignmation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone.

Tessa: Goodness. If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.
Jem choked on his tea.”

“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

“It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.”

“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose”

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”

“Is Tyson okay?' I asked.
The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.”

“He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.”

“these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.”

“We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.”

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”

“Garrett ran a hand through his hair. “How can you stay the head of the Stake-Out team? Isn’t that a conflict of interest?”
“You expect me to stake myself?” Sean growled.
“I’ve got a nice, big one you can borrow,” Gregori suggested.”

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”

“You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much."

-Acheron”

“Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.”

“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
“you know I love you dearly—”
“Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner?”

“What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.”

“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”

“I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.”

“There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.”

“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.”

“The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.”

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”

“To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.”

“I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.”

“Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands…”

“Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”

“When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.”

“There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.”

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…”

“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”

“Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.”

“A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.”

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”

“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

“And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.”

“If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.”

“… I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”

“I've read your summary."
"And?"
"It's not incompetent."
Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?”

“We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.”

“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

“We are never prepared for what we expect.”

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”

“Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?”

“I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.”

“No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.”

“Don't wish me happiness — I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them all.”

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”

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

“Redemption is never where you expect to find it.”

“Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.”

“I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.”

“Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”

“If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote, I must be dafter than I look.”

“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”

“If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”

“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.”

“Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don't love to be loved, we love to love”

“However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.”

“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.”

“Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?”

“.. we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.”

“Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.”

“I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.”

“Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”

“A six-inch blade. I smiled. Did he buy it? It was actually just shy of four—but very nicely weighted—and as Aunt Bernice noted, a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.”

“… if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.”