Expectation Quotes

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it’s your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.

I’m tired of being what you want me to be, feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don’t know what you’re expecting of me, put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.

Expect the unexpected.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.