Quotes About Expectation

Richard's backing out did not surprise me. It's called buyer's remorse

saying, I continued with my grievance. "I thought you were

I'm due for a promotion in three months.

He's been waiting for me to get fed up?

and now I did not even have my Saturdays to look forward to.

Forty-five minutes went by

but you haven't kept your word

You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."...

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Snow in April is abominable, said Anne. Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it…

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.

The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen…wonderful things.

But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?