Quotes About Expectation

He said, I always thought the woman I'd marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

There was the same old dread, and there was the same old hope

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

Beauty is a promise of happiness.

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

Even if our loved ones have assured us that they'll be busy at work, even if they told us they hated us for going travelling in the first place, even if they left us last June or died twelve years ago, it is impossible not to experience a shiver of a sense that they may have come along anyway, just to surprise us and make us feel special.

We aren't overwhelmed by anger whenever we are frustrated; only when we first believed ourselves entitled to a particular satisfaction and then did not receive it.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering.

Doyurulmay? bekleyen gereksinimler kimi zaman halüsinasyonlar doÄŸurur: Susuzluk suyu hayal eder, aÅŸka duyulan gereksinim de ideal bir erkek ya da kad?n?.

If prostitutes ... attract us so little, it is not because they are less beautiful than other women, but because they are ready and waiting; because they already offer us precisely what we seek to attain.

Vân?m oameni cu care viaÈ›a e mai palpitant?, iar asta nu doar din convingerea c? ne aÈ™teapt? o existen?? mai armonioas?, ci din sentimentul inconÈ™tient c? tiparele frust?rii unui asemenea om ni se vor p?rea reconfortant mai familiare.

We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

There is dangerous innocence in the expectation of a future formed on the basis of probability.

We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

There is dangerous innocence in the expectation of a life formed on the basis of probability.

He once fantasized that his worries would be stilled if he lived elsewhere, if he attained a few professional goals, if he had a family. But nothing has ever made a difference. He is, he can see, anxious to the core, in his most basic make-up: a frightened, ill-adjusted creature.

A single idea recurs throughout his work: that we best endure those frustrations which we have prepared ourselves for and understand and are hurt most by those we least expected and cannot fathom. Philosophy must reconcile us to the true dimensions of reality, and so spare us, if not frustration itself, then at least its panoply of pernicious accompanying emotions.

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.

Since Betty was on the pill or took precautions of her own which Graham did not choose to enquire into, the marital bed was untrammelled by tedious prophylaxis so that what Graham had been expecting to find an onerous and even distasteful duty unexpectedly partook of a freedom and absence of restraint that he found exhilerating.

At least I know today that I will not have to wait that long.

You were supposed to be free [...] That was all I had to give you.

Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.