Quotes About Expectation

Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope.

I returned to my chair and waited for the TV weather report.

She was the only person Phoebe knew who actually believed that if you kept kissing a frog you'd eventually end up with a prince.

Second is, don't try to change user behavior dramatically. If you are expecting people to dramatically change the way they do things, it's not going to happen. Try to make it such that it's a small change, yet an important one.

Are we all ready to make a change, like we've been saying we are? Or are we expecting life to do it for us?

Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit.

There's a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that's the only thing women are meant for.

But the myth of sexual purity still reigns supreme, and it grossly affects the way American society thinks about violence toward women. So long as women are supposed to be "pure," and so long as our morality is defined by our sexuality, sexualized violence against us will continue to be both accepted and expected.

The question is not why fools fall in love. It is expected of them. When "smart" people fall in love - that's the problem.

modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve.

This attitude of buying, this religious expectation that there are endless things which we can get, and the almost orgastic pleasure in visualizing the wealth of new things you can buy, this is something which carries over in our attitude towards things other than new models. We have become consumers of everything, consumers of science, consumers of art, consumers of lectures, consumers of love, and the attitude is always the same.

ÇoÄŸumuz sevilmeyi ummuÅŸuzdur yaln?zca giydirilip beslenmeyi deÄŸil, anla??lmay?, dikkate al?nmay?, sayg? gösterilmeyi beklemiÅŸizdir. ÇoÄŸumuz inanabilmeyi ummuÅŸuzdur. Küçükken, o insan buluÅŸu olan yalan? henüz bilmiyorduk yaln?zca sözlerle söylenen yalan? deÄŸil, sesle, mimiklerle, gözlerle, yüzsel anlat?mla yalan söylemeyi de bilmiyorduk.

ÇoÄŸu insan Kafka'n?n ihtiyar?na benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeÅŸil ???k yakmad??? sürece beklerler de beklerler.

El hombre sólo puede ser humano en un clima en el que pueda esperar que él y sus hijos vivirán para ver el año siguiente y muchos más años por vivir.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

One always expects something else.

Kes midagi ei oota, ei saa ka pettuda. See on hea lähtepunkt. Kõik, mis siis järgneb, lisab juba natukene juurde.

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

What's going on outside, Ravic?" "Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it's doing." "Will there be war?" "Everyone knows that there will be war. What one does not yet know is when. Everyone expects a miracle." Ravic smiled. "Never before have I seen so many politicians who believe in miracles as at present

Frontul e o colivie în care, plin de nervozitate, trebuie s? aÈ™tepÈ›i ce va urma.

Nikad ne treba da me ?ekaš. Strašno je ?ekati. - Ti, Robi, baš ništa ne razumeš. Strašno je samo kad nema šta da se ?eka.

Šteta - re?e Lilijan - i nije tako tužna re? kako se misli. - Je li i to neko vaše novo otkri?e? - Ovo je današnje otkri?e. Pejstr odma?e stolicu. - Uzdam se u vaša sutrašnja otkri?a. - Nadanje - re?e Lilijan - nasuprot tome, mnogo je tužnija re? nego što se misli.

Sela je za svoj sto i izvadila pribor za pisanje. - Ljubljeni, pisala je, ti sa nejasnim licem, nepoznati, koji nikad nisi došao, stalno o?ekivani, zar ne ose?aš kako vreme izmi?e? A onda je prestala da piše i odgurnu kasetu u kojoj su ležala mnoga neposlata pisma, pisma za koje nije znala adrese - pogleda u beli list pred sobom i pomisli: zašto pla?em? Time se ionako ništa ne može izmeniti...

That's one trouble about the raids. . . People do nothing but make tea and expect you to drink it.