Quotes About Expectation

And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger. Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird.

En av lärorna på Tlön går så långt att den förnekar tiden: den tänker sig att nuet är oändligt, att framtiden inte är verklig annat än som en förväntan i nuet, att det förflutna inte är verkligt annat än som ett minne i nuet.

Años de soledad le habían enseñado que los días, en la memoria, tienden a ser iguales, pero que no hay un día, ni siquiera de cárcel o de hospital, que no traiga sorpresas.

Para un hombre célibe entrado en años, el ofrecido amor es un don que ya no se espera.

No less vain to my mind are hope and fear, for they always refer to future events, that is, to events which will not happen to us, who are the minute present.

Jam në Buenos Aires. Shpresoj t'ju shoh sonte, shpresoj t'ju shoh nesër. E di që ne do t'jemi të lumtur bashkë (të lumtur dhe ndonjëherë memecë dhe madhështisht budallenj).

he understood with a certain bitterness that he could expect nothing from those pupils who accepted his doctrine passively, but that he could expect something from those who occasionally dared to oppose him.

como todo escritor, medía las virtudes de los otros por lo ejecutado por ellos y pedía que los otros lo midieran por lo que vislumbraba o planeaba

Naturalmente, esas «loterías» fracasaron. Su virtud moral era nula. No se dirigían a todas las facultades del hombre: únicamente a su esperanza.

El más pródigo amor le fue otorgado El amor que no espera ser amado (Hem viel de rijkelijkste liefde toe, De liefde die geen wederliefde hoeft.)

On attend quelque chose, et un matin on se réveille et on comprend. C'est simplement la fin qu'on attend.Selon Lisette, c'est ce que les gens à la télé appelle une dépression.

However, despite our lack of facial hair, every Navajo recruit was still expected to put soap on his face each morning and scrape away his imaginary beard. What you did in boot camp did not have to make sense. You just had to do it.

T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

Dreams are rarely founded on truth.

Segala yang dihasrat tapi tak didapat adalah nikmat yang paling padat.

He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.

They always take longer than you think.

he expected to find Piglet warming his toes in front of his fire, but to his surprise he saw that the door was open, and the more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

We've come to wish you a Very Happy Thursday" said Pooh… "Why, what's going to happen on Thursday?" asked Rabbit, and when Pooh had explained and Rabbit, whose life Was made up of Important Things, said, "Oh, I thought you'd really come about something.

Oh!" said Pooh. And then seeing that Owl ex- pected him to say something else, he said, "Will there be those little cake things with pink sugar icing? " Owl felt that it was rather beneath him to talk about little cake things with pink sugar icing, so he told Pooh exactly what Christopher Robin had said, and flew off to Eeyore

Yes, it is, isn't it? " said Kanga, not waiting to hear what happened on Friday.

Content," Guildenstern agreed. "One aspires to happiness, but not too much since one would not wish to be disappointed.