Quotes About Expectations

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Like the weather, the average long-term experience in investing is never surprising, but the short-term experience is always surprising.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.

Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!

I am not aware...that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person, my dear.

Well, I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which was the case with mine, I cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I have no doubt you think you are, as all girls do.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham's. 'Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,' said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, 'because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man.

the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.

I cannot tell you how dependent and uncertain I feel, and how exposed to hundreds of chances. All my expectations depend on one person. And how indefinite and uncertain they are!

Eu sei, eu sei que não posso ter esperanças de dizer que a senhora é minha, Estella. Eu não sei o que está para acontecer comigo, se vou ficar pobre ou para onde vou. Mas, mesmo assim, eu a amo. Amo-a desde a primeira vez em que a vi nesta casa.

May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages, are always most particularly anxious to be married?

Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella? - Yes, and many others - all of them but you.

There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned

I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if you drop them ass-first into paradise. They like bitching too much.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Boys will be boys — and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Today the accent is on youth but the stress is on the parents.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

I've been waiting for 7 years for Obama to take my gun and all I got was a job, health insurance and marriage equality.