Quotes About Expectation

Si le voyageur n'espère rien, Il ne verra que ce que voient les yeux.

Man's happiness today consists in "having fun." Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and "taking in" commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies—all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones—and the eternally disappointed ones.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.

At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Call a random number and say "Get ready because I am". Call back in 10 minutes and ask if they are ready yet.

Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.

I just can't wait for the future.

There is no human hope without the promise of ecstasy.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Life may not treat you the way you expect, so you may not treat her the way she expect, but whichever the way, be brave and prepared when she comes.

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

Religious folk could be so deliciously predictable. He could set his watch by their hypocrisy.

Gelmemenin vakti yoktur. Ä°nsan coÅŸkuyla beklerken ne kadar zaman geçerse, o büyük günün yaklaÅŸt???na o kadar emin olur.

Et qui, un jour, a cessé d'être ce qu'il avait été, et cessé de promettre ce qu'il semblait avoir promis.

For a long time, as I waited for her to return, I believed she knew I was there behind the trees and that this was my doing. That she knew I would come. For who else could it have been?

You know, a lot of people nowadays believe they're owed a happy ending.

There was no communication between master and slave on any strictly human level, but only the relation one might have to a piece of property--if you twist the knob on your radio you expect it to play. It was this essential condition of nonhumanity that characterized the African slave's lot in this country of his captivity, a country which was later and ironically to become his land also.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Then, frighteningly, he said, 'But as you are a man, how are you going to deliver your pregnancy? This is a big problem for you.

I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted.