Quotes About Expectation

He laughed, looking down into his empty cup. "Decent people don't expect that kind of twistedness." He put the cup down on the floor. "And if they ever did suspect it, they'd just blame themselves for thinking too mean. You should trust your disquiet the next time. That's what it's there for. A man like that gets where he is by seeming. And then he makes you feel obligated to him. It's an old trick.

I see the search for objectivity in the social sciences as something along the lines of Zen enlightenment: I don't personally expect to achieve either of them, but I do find the pursuit worthwhile.

You can always have the best, Kasie," I say quietly. "A woman like you never has to settle for anything.

You're done with work for the day." It's not a question. "Am I?" "Meet me out front." The line goes dead.

It's the thing we don't expect, Billina, that usually happens, observed the girl, thoughtfully.

If you think of some dreadful thing, it's liable to happen, but if you don't think of it, and no one else thinks of it, it just can't happen.

Al principio habíase preguntado si se haría pedazos cuando la casa volviera a caer; mas a medida que transcurrían las horas sin que sucediera nada terrible, dejó de preocuparse y decidió esperar con calma para ver qué le depararía el futuro.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial, said Anne, rather scornfully. Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

Mrs Lynde says, Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed. But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

She a patient waitin in my room

I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.

See? Things are already looking promising.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.