Quotes About Expectation

I have seen what comes of being patient, " Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it.""What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth."Nothing!

Don't go a-hunting for a moose where there ain't no moose to hunt.

…he'd assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the stars, which were all still in the sky, just burning in unexpected places.

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

If that phone ain't ringing, I assume it still ain't you" Randy Travis

They want your sons.""My–? But I don't… ew!

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

I always splash on the cologne before a blind date because dogs can smell fear

You've already said you were going to kill me, " Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.