Quotes About Expectation

Why did you do it? — I don't know. Here isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do We have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?

Es mejor que la suerte te sorprenda cuando estás preparado.

hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong.

how long now it would be before we would see the enemy, and listening all the while for the first noises that would signal that ever mysterious event called contact

Non lo disse ad alta voce perché sapeva che a dirle, le cose belle non succedono.

Do you have other things like that to look forward to? Just everyday. I look forward to everyday.

Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in expectation of success.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion.

Not only do we have endless demands, but on top of it all we want to be happy. That was once reserved for the afterlife. We've brought heaven down to earth, within reach of all, and now happiness is no longer just a pursuit, but a mandate. We expect one person to give us what once an entire village used to provide, and we live twice as long. It's a tall order for a party of two.

We are willing to concede that the future is unpredictable, but we expect the past to be dependable. Betrayed by our beloved, we suffer the loss of a coherent narrative—the "internal structure that helps us predict and regulate future actions and feelings [creating] a stable sense of self," as psychiatrist Anna Fels defines it.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When our desires are unfulfilled, we

Tamzene Donner was a woman at peace with the vagaries of life: "I am as happy as I can reasonably expect in this changing world.

Here at his own home, inside his own front door, there was nobody who seemed to be taken by surprise at what had happened to Judge McKelva. Laurel seemed to remember that Presbyterians were good at this.

JEAN: I promise you'll recognize her by her smile. No-one smiles like her. She's on the tall side, I think, and she has long arms. But you'll recognize her too by the look of wonder on her face at finding herself here . . . She'll close her eyes a minute because the light's too strong. She'll ask you if I've been here if you've seen me, if anyone's waiting for her.

And all I long for is the dawn!

being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension...without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!

Perhaps because waiting for an inevitable disaster is worse than the disaster itself.

Durante a sua permanência no Mali, voltou a ser ofendido. (Os árabes parecem ter considerado os costumes africanos tão grosseiros como os veriam os exploradores europeus, alguns séculos mais tarde.) Ibn Battuta esperava que os presentes de receção fossem belas vestes e dinheiro; em lugar disso, porém, foi presenteado pelo novo rei com três pães e uma porção de carne de vaca frita, bem como algum iogurte.

It's just really hard when you've got something, and you think something is going to happen next, and then it's taken away from you. It's one thing when you don't know what you're losing, but to have it, and understand how precious it is, and still lose it . . . It fucking sucks.

or in the same time frame. The trouble is we expect the emote part of emotion. Humans are social primates, and our experiences have to be externalized to be acknowledged by others.

I look up to the sky as if I'm expecting Morgan Freeman to look down at me and wink, giving me his approval.

The trouble is we expect the emote part of emotion. Humans are social primates, and our experiences have to be externalized to be acknowledged by others.