#expect

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. ↗

— David Guterson

#being #book #challenged #did #expectation

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#expected #going #gold #gold medal #medal

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea. ↗

— Stephen King

#funny

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #being #disorderly #drunk #expect

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#aspirations #expectation #fears #finding-yourself #hopes

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime? ↗

— Linda Tripp

#commit #conspiring #crime #criminal #document

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#announced #because #expected #i #keep

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #been #course #critical #enough

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#became #consumed #else #expected #i