Quotes About Expectation

JUST AS THEY'D planned, April stopped by the Rosses' apartment on Thursday afternoon, and the three of them, April and Melanie and Marshall, went on down to pick up Elizabeth. Elizabeth

I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

I stokro? wol? typ kobiety przej?ciowej ni? typ kobiety przysz?o?ci - bo kobieta przej?ciowa zapowiada niesko?czenie wi?cej, ni? tamta w swym dokonaniu si? usprawiedliwi

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

Hope blooms when the time is ready.

Hope is the reason the flowers bloom.

Love is giving from the heart without expecting any return. Love is sharing the beauty of life without expecting any charm or joy. Love is caring with kindness without knowing caring is the joy.

Not the action, but the expectation, creates results.

The beauty of hope is that it often become a reality.

To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

Sometimtes you don't even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

I've got the perfect dress. It's going to knock your socks off." Marcus wasn't sure if that was good or bad, but he couldn't wait to find out.

Sure she wanted him to be someone else, or at least sort of someone else. Pretty much everyone wants everyone else to be at least sort of someone else, don't they?

I have been waiting on her all my life. I was the waitress. Waiting on her and waiting for her. What was I waiting for? Waiting for her to step into her self or step out of her invalid self. Waiting for her to take the voyage out of her gloom, to buy a ticket to a vital life.

The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.

Sophia will not come. How mad he is to imagine, for a moment, that she might. Why should she risk everything for him? He can offer her nothing, only love.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere." —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Great achievements would be few and far between without gross overestimation of the advantages and pleasures to be expected from them.