Quotes About Expectation

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off.

Wolfe: 'Our next step is obvious, but it must wait...' Archie: It was nice to know the next step was obvious, but it would have been even nicer to know what it was.

Is all this necessary?" Bowen wanted to know. "Perhaps not," Wolfe allowed, "but I'm exposing a murderer and claim a measure of indulgence. You must have expected to spend hours here. Am I tedious?" "Go ahead.

I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. So

Since the phone conversation was none of my business, I stood and listened to it, and gathered that someone named Philip had better put in an appearance by five o'clock or else.

Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression he weighed too much- which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean had decided it was too wet...

When I am expected at a certain hour it's nearly always Lily who comes, I think on account of some kind of a notion she has about a maid admitting a man who has a key. I have never tried to dope it. Other people's notions are none of my business unless they get in the way.

pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Something good is just about to happen.

There are two kinds of people: Those who say, "I will believe it when I see it." And those who say, "To see it, I know I must believe

When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don't contradict your desires. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive. Making room to receive your desires is one way of sending out that powerful signal of expectation.

Hanni, I'm going to have to watch you carefully. You may break a lot of hearts in London." "What am I to break?" she asked with that lovely innocent smile. "Hearts. Lots of Englishmen will fall in love with you." "I hope so," she said. "I'm gonna be hot sexy dame. You can give me tips.

Actually, no, I couldn't wait.

expected to find you dead. But I entrusted you to the care of Saint Rita.

It's strange having nothing to do expect be waited on.

Estoy convencido de que nunca nos sucede nada que no hayamos previsto, nada para lo que no estemos preparados. Nos han tocado malos tiempos, como a todos los hombres, y hay que aprender a vivir sin ilusiones

desde las 3:00 p.m. hasta las 3:33. Y entonces yo, con el corazón quieto y los pulmones cerrados, sometido por las preguntas sin respuesta de la espera, voy paso por paso hasta la casa número tres.

You know, the first two, I probably should've seen coming. The leprechaun costume? Not so much.

Good things come to those who wait, but shit pretty much shows up right away, doesn't it?

I'd never been in love, because I was waiting for the silent-movie love: big eyes and violins, chattering without sound, pure. Nobody had loved right since 1926.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

You find what you look for, my boy." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Exactly what it sounds like.