We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.