Quotes About Expectation

Anything involving the future is an over-optimistic lie.

Rod exemplifies the attitude that Losing It is no big deal. He saw that fate coming, and he was already planning to get over it.

The heartbreak of finding an empty teacup when you thought there was one gulp to go.

I asked for a pony. And year after year I'm disappointed.

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

We hope so much that you will be able to come and have tea with us on Wednesday, as we would be much disappointed not to see you. Yours sincerely,

We had a consuming desire, from the beginning, to see a pony rider, but somehow or other all that passed

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Don't expect wisdom at the moment of death.

You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect.

Nobody cares what the entrée is..... if the appetizer is turds in a blanket!

Àqueles a quem muito se dá, muito se exige.

we are trained from childhood to chafe, emotionally, under the saddle of obligation.

Time is getting on.... Yes, bad luck to it. It always gallops when you want it to walk, and walks when you want it to gallop, like an ill-trained horse.

The first hour of accomplished love is perhaps the only passage in a man's life with which he is perfectly satisfied. It is the only reality that does not disappoint the dream of expectation. There is no region of speculation beyond it--its horizon bounds the world.

People who travel only in their arm-chairs acquire notions of foreign places which reality usually upsets at the first glance.

I'm breathing . . . Are you breathing too? . . . It's nice, isn't it? It isn't difficult to keep alive, friends just don't -make trouble-or if you must make trouble, make the sort of trouble that's expected. Well, I don't need to tell you that. Good night. If we should bump into one another, recognize me

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.