Quotes About Expectation

Superheroes are supposedly great beings who rise to help humanity through its darkest hours. Who needs these preposterous figures? They are just the continuation of messianism by other means. Humanity needs to help itself and stop looking to fantasy beings to help it out. You will never resolve your problems while you are expecting a deus ex machina to bail you out.

For routines you call, rely only on documented behavior. If you can't, for whatever reason, then document your assumption well.

a little while at least.

he thought he was going to be slapped.

there was a reason Zoey had downed a fairly large antianxiety cookie before anyone had arrived.

John glanced around, half expecting to see a disheveled Dave pulling himself up from some spot on the floor. He'd be squinting, his hair matted down, looking like he'd just been shit out of a dinosaur.

They were waiting for me, I realized, too late. They were waiting for me to push the attack, to lead them. Welcome aboard the David Wong Disappointment Train, fuckers.

Type of guy whose life had gone exactly as he'd expected it. I bet he'd never shot a delivery guy with a crossbow even once.

Would it not be the beautiful thing now If you were coming instead of going…

If you expect

The future comes one day at a time.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

I felt in this new adventure I was rousing to life again. I was a butterfly, newly emerged from the chrysalis, damp winged and trembling with expectation.

Stoker to Veronica. I thought it was love but I was so very wrong. I have never known love at least not until..... I thought at some point I would have a great love like that. A woman fashioned by the gods just for me as I had been made just for her. That we would find each other. That she was waiting for me but I did not wait for her. I married a base metal when the gods had promised me gold.

There was nothing more promising than the first stage of a new expedition. Everything was possible in that moment; there was no past, no future, only that hollow in time when everything paused.

Instead we were cooped up like hapless chickens nesting on our disappointed hopes.

I appreciate your courage in coming in here like this. Truly. I expected some ridiculous, theatrical caper, and instead you're taking what's coming to you like a man.

Did you never think of children then? Ours?" His voice was thick with emotion. "I never expected in the whole of my life that God would be so generous as to give me you. I did not think to ask for more.

Please assure his lordship that I am not enjoying the fruits of connubial bliss with Stoker, nor should he expect a claim upon his fortune because I am in an indelicate condition.