Quotes About Expectations

Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this . . . seventeen never knows it.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. When I was seventeen, Anne, I didn't think forty-five would find me a white-haired little old maid with nothing but dreams to fill my life.

Keyifli ÅŸeyler bittiÄŸinde her zaman üzülürüm. Arkas?ndan daga keyifli ÅŸeyler de gelebilir ama asla emin olamazs?n?z. Ve çoÄŸunlukla da daha keyifli olmaz. En az?ndan benim tecrübelerim öyle.

You set your heart too much on things, Anne," said Marilla, with a sigh. "I'm afraid there'll be a great many disappointments in store for you through life." "Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them

the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den—walk up to a girl—a strange girl—an orphan girl—and demand of her why she wasn't a boy.

Evet ama keklerin, sen özellikle iyi olmalar?n? istediÄŸinde kötü olmak gibi korkunç bir yanlar? var, diyerek iç geçirdi Anne.

Well, we're not getting a girl," said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy.

Ama en iyisine de haz?rlanmam?z gerekmez mi? diyerek itiraz etti Anne. En iyi ihtimalin de en kötüsü kadar gerçekleÅŸme ÅŸans? var.

There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are others to whom it will always be a royal palace with domes and minarets of rainbow fancy.

Art?k anlamaya baÅŸlad?m, büyümenin en kötü taraf? bu. Çocukken çok istediÄŸin ÅŸeyler, onlara ulaÅŸt???n zaman o kadar da harika görünmüyor.

Perhaps after a while I'll get used to it, but I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,' Mrs. Morris told her. I've heard that proverb all my life, said Myra Murray, and I wonder if it's true. Perhaps the birds in the bush could sing and the one in the hand couldn't.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

Mrs Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed… that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either… they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

And everyone assured him that he would never be a man until he learned how to drive. Indeed, the future was already dull and menacing with the ambitions other people entertained on his behalf.

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

Women can be wives and mothers but they can never be people.

The gap between promises and results is widespread and clear. The gap nobody knows is the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it.

It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.

Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

no matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.

It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice you were into an argument and they were telling you what was going to happen.