Quotes About Expectation

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Since Borne never displayed any kind of threatening behavior, I never thought to take him as a threat. Even calling Borne a "he" began to feel faintly ridiculous as he didn't exhibit the aggression or self-absorption I expected from most males. Instead

Should she somehow think that what came next

confess I went because I had hopes that there remained some spark of the man I'd once known. But I never really found it.

The State had few serviceable weapons, and no establishment for their manufacture or repair. This fact (which is true of other Southern States as of Mississippi) is a clear proof of the absence of any desire or expectation of war.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

William Cox declara: «Es por el éxito de la Primera Venida de nuestro Señor que los cristianos tienen una confianza tan grande mientras aguardan Su gloriosa aparición».

As we followed him down a hall to a back bedroom, he told us that he owned the house. "Unfortunately, it's not haunted," he said.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends. —Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory 1.

Toyota's concept of a good process is one that expects and reveals problems, without blame, not one that is problem-free.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

In everyday social relationships, people expect fair treatment and favors to be reciprocated.

God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, and keep rejoicing

Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

And, Kayla? My regards to your mother. I have a feeling you will be seeing her very soon.