Quotes About Expectation

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: "This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

I have a rendezvous with life.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.