Expecting Quotes

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.

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.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

There are things which need to be shown in the trailer in order to let the audience know what kind of film it is that they're going to be expecting to see.

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

One thing that I've found is that people could relate and see different qualities in the video that they enjoyed. That wasn't something I was necessarily expecting.

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn't asked for and weren't expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.

When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

I beat myself up in the studio because I know that a lot of people are expecting me to fail.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

I don't think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there's no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn't make any sense either.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

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.

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.