Quotes About Expectation

Esperar lo que nunca ocurrirá es una muerte demasiado horrible.

Passa un segon com passa tota una vida quan passem la vida esperant una llum que triga.

Ma, sai, se c'è una cosa che la vita mi ha insegnato è che aspettare ciò che non accadrà mai è una morte troppo orribile.

If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.

Jupiter promises us infallible happiness, fortune, a thousand blessings, and a brave son. Isn't this what everybody wants?

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura.

No sabíais que si el hombre promete demasiado a menudo más de lo que puede mantener, también amenaza no menos a menudo, más de lo que se atreve luego a cumplir?

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura; alla prova poi, difficile, schizzinosa: non trova mai tanto che le basti, perché, in sostanza, non sapeva quello che si volesse; e fa scontare senza pietà il dolce che aveva dato senza ragione.

no one is ever ready for anything

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I never had a particular quota that I expected any player to fulfil, but they all knew I expected nothing but the best from them.

Opponents come to Old Trafford expecting an onslaught. 'Why disappoint them?' I say to my players.

Faced with the need to confront a player who had performed below our expectation, I might have said: That was rubbish, that.' But then I would follow it up with, 'For a player of your ability. That was for picking them back up from the initial blow. Criticise but balance it out with encouragement. 'Why are you doing that? You're better than that.

The thing about Sarah was, she always did what I wanted her to do. Always. And that was because she was me, and I was her. She never disappointed me. She always showed up. Wyatt disappointed me precisely because he was real. He was a real boy who could not climb my tower in the slippery rain.

Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you.

I can't go back and wait and wait...if [he] isn't going to come.

He lays on Peter: "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." Jesus expects the frail disciple to become strong in grace, and so able and willing to help the weak. He cherishes this expectation with respect to all, but specially in regard to Peter, assuming that the weakest might and ought eventually to become the strongest; the last first, the greatest sinner the greatest saint; the most foolish the wisest, most benignant, and sympathetic of

If I seem cagey, it is because I am not a liar and hate being considered one, due to an accident of craft. But also, if I tell you the idea, and the description disappoints you, the novel can be lost.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

Never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call;She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.