Quotes About Expectation

You thought if you handed over your body he'd do something interesting.

and everyone's watching, everyone's curious, everyone's holding their breath.

I went to the riverbed to wait for you to show up. You didn't show up. I kept waiting.

You do the math, you expect the trouble.

I'll be right here. I'm waiting.

You had expected something else, anything else

We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen.

but where's the checkered flag we all expected, waving in the distance, telling you you're home again, home?

Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

Oh my God," he said. "Oh my God." "You'll see him soon," Parker said.

You'll like LA a little better once we're outside. Think of New Jersey with palm trees.

I pull the door open and step inside, bracing myself for the heat and noise, but there is nothing here tonight. Just a few lights flicked on, running up and down the walls, and one long solitary bulb directly over the ring–a soft yellow glow emanating from the metal cage wrapped around it.

After a half hour of sitting and staring at Mister Lewis sitting on his box, Patrick heard the sound of an engine

People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.

Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then I have grown some in these 61 years. I have learned and become a better person. And from that maybe it's the years ahead that will be the richest of my life. A quiet man moving forward, gladly beyond all expectation.

There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

What you hope forIs that at some point of the pointless journey,Indoors or out, and when you least expect it,Right in the middle of your stride, like that,So neatly that you never feel a thing,The kind assassin Sleep will draw a beadAnd blow your brains out.

Materialists do not love matter. They have no sense of its "earnest expectation" (Romans 8:19), and do not sympathize with its "bondage of corruption" (Romans 8:21).

And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could ever do, beyond suffering, was wait and see what might be going to happen next.

time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes

Dan Rosenthal rose happily from his drawing board to shake hands on hearing there was a baby on the way. But after that brief ceremony, when we'd both sat down again, he peered at me reflectively. "How can you be a father," he asked, "when you still look like a son?" 

Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.