Quotes about Expectation

When it comes to awards and things like that - I don't know why - I just always sit in amazement and never really expect it.

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and was trying to remember what it was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.

Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

I found out I got 'The Little Drummer Girl' and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn't expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It's been an overwhelming experience.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lowered it (Matthew 5:27—28).