Quotes About Expectancy

My friendship with Leonard began with me invoking the laws of love: the ones that involved the expectancy. "We are one," I decided shortly after we met. "You are me, and I am you, and it is our obligation to save each other." It took me years for me to realize this sentiment was off the mark. What we are, in fact, is a pair of solitary travelers slogging through the country of our lives, meeting up from time to time at the outer limit to give each other border reports.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.

The combination of the song, the birthmark, and the cashier's haunting gray eyes generates in Vess an eerie sense of expectancy. Something exceptional is about to happen.

tri-gravida, well-nourished

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Grier had decided long ago that the key was to make expectation

we've always predicated our quotations on the assumption that life expectancy in the United States would continue to rise. But during the past three years it has in fact started to go down.

expectation isn't the same as desire

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

The posture is the lowest possible position in which we can put ourselves with empty hands and eager hearts.

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

It's as if some master perfumer and necromancer had foreseen all the broken promises of your life to come, all the pangs of unrequited love and unreturned letters; the torment of watching a phone that never rings; the bright expectancy of fresh hope at breakfast, in ruins by sunset ... it was as if he took all these things and blended them into a single fragrance and called it whatever the French is for Disappointment — Désolé or Chagrin or something.

She sighed as she always does, a deep, gathered breath and a low release of luxury. Some people resent awakening, but not Mary. She comes to a day with the expectancy that it will be good.

Always be ready for the unexpected because you never know who or what may come into your life today.

You can't allow your feelings to determine your future. Every great thing that God has for you is activated in your life when you choose to live with expectancy and hope.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

A girl called me once and said come over, nobody is home! I went there and she was right, nobody was home

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something.

Reading is added to that great pile of things—work, love, sexual prowess, the words they didn't say when they really needed to say them—that they are bound to feel a bit dissatisfied about.

What they don't realize is that sequels are bound to disappoint those who have waited for them.

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

As Seneca put it: 'The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.