Quotes About Expectation

You ready for this?" "Of course not. Are you?" "Not even a little.

Vidocq turns in a slow circle. "My God. It really is a room full of doors." "Thirteen. What did you expect?" "I assumed the doors were a metaphor. Each door would be a way to describe a different state of being." "No. It's just a lot of doors.

I wait up front like some asshole whose mom is picking out his suit for prom night right in front of all the mean girls from school.

Sometimes, out in the world . . . being exactly what people want and expect . . . well, maybe it isn't a good thing but it's a smart thing.

Entitlement is a contagious, insidious state of mind that has infected a whole generation of young people who feel they deserve things based on who they think they are or who their parents are. Or who they've been told they are. Entitlement also afflicts adults, who feel they should have or get things based on their friends having them or just feeling worthy. It's hard to pinpoint the derivation of where and when the disease started, but it's an epidemic.

That's actually a very liberating expectation, expecting to fail," he has said.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

As humans, we seek naturally to help fellow creatures in distress. But most of us, whether we are conscious of it or not, expect something back – the flattery of helplessness and of need.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be

No one marries expecting it to fail. And even when it's good, who knows how long it's going to last?

Descobri que as experiências mais significativas de nossa vida raramente ocorrem quando as esperamos, e muito frequentemente quando nem sequer estamos prestando atenção." - A Promessa -

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

Iti petreci viata construind tot felul de fantezii romantice.Nu te astepti din partea cavalerului sa te arunce de pe cal la o aruncatura de bat de castel.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

I'll let you sweat a while. You ain't gonna know when it's comin' or from where. You'll just be walking along or riding somewhere—and bing—that's it.

You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.

It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.

and you don't trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy

and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

I'll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there?