Quotes About Expectation

If we can learn to wait through the "natural silences" of life, he liked to say, we will be surprised by what awaits us on the other side.

You've completely managed my life for the next twelve hours. Why do you have that 'nipple-clamp' expression on your face?

Brandon's furious desire to care for Taylor surprised him, but it also invigorated him. He'd been waiting all his adult life to have a prince come sweep him off his feet. Imagine his shock to find that he was the prince, and he had a job to do.

This was not how Carpenter expected this conversation to go. "You're insane," he said decisively. "So insane." Dane appeared unfazed. "We've covered that. Bipolar depression, anxiety—you've

man, two quarters, a twist of a knob, that kid should have fallen into our laps by now!

Mackey stretched out on Trav's sheets almost defiantly, one knee drawn up, his cock larger than Trav had expected now that it was hard and extended up over his thigh.

When I sleep with someone, I need it to mean something. I need to know someone would look me in the eye and be there the next day, and the next week, and the next month. I'm not stupid—I know it doesn't always mean forever, but you have to at least think it could be forever. There's a possibility of forever before you even touch, or you're just touching to hurt yourself.

The ball never fucking landed.

I'm still waiting for the rain to fall, pouring life down on me

Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.

Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.

I would rather have a Hemingwayesque failure than a Juhaszian success.

the thing about Steven is, everyone wants him to fill the hole we have in our lives.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

If these were the foresmellings, I expected nothing less than fully ripe putrescence by, say, ten o'clock.

Despite Paul's insistence that Jesus "was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:4), no Jewish source, outside those associated with the followers of Jesus, shows any expectation that the messiah would be killed and after three days rise. The

The audience, surprised at this lack of compassion, would have presumed both that the third person would be an Israelite and that he would help.

Poco después, llegó el día de la Primera Comunión. Fue un día muy agitado. Me vistieron de blanco, con un velo también blanco. Me habían dicho que tenía que pedir por todo el mundo, pero nadie me decía qué es lo que tenía que pedir para todo el mundo. Así que pedí para mí, y pedí un caballo vivo. Nunca me lo trajeron.

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.

Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?

The future is a convenient place for dreams

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.