Quotes About Expectation

Can I ask who you are, sir?" "Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.

We don't love each other; we love the idea we have of each other.

Over time, he'd come to understand that in some dark corner of his mind, he'd been dreading and half-expecting the news. The ax had fallen at last, suspense was forever over . . .

Robin and Matthew had just two months to go before the wedding. There was still time.

Everyday things became so strange, when you were waiting for something dreadful to happen. Her heart was pounding fast.

I thought you'd come back I thought you'd stop me marrying him I didn't think you'd let me do it

Katya had given Mr Blay to understand that he could turn up at any hour of the day or night and he took full and regular advantage of the offer.

It was far from the first time he'd encountered the tendency to believe the dead would have wanted whatever was most convenient to the living.

Thanks, anyway,' she said, and he had the feeling that he had disappointed her, that she'd hoped he would make her a promise of the truth, that he would swear upon his honor to do what everyone else had failed to do.

If that doesn't work, she can have a hundred quid." "I think she's hoping for thousands." "And I'm hoping for Christmas in the Bahamas," said Strike, as rain dotted the window behind him.

But I know you'd have done what you did for anyone. That's your code, isn't it? And I always wanted something particular from you, something you wouldn't give anyone else. Funny, I've started to appreciate people who're decent to everyone, but it's too late for that, too, isn't it?

When I got there and picked up the receiver, there was no one on the other end. I clicked the cradle several times

She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. "Catherine.

And now, you till come,

Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future.

Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near. – Luke 21:28

Every day is different when lived with anticipation.

I call this second phenomenon the Better-Deal Theory, which states: Before a person closes a deal, it's human nature for him to worry that there may be a better deal down the road.

they were expected to, well, to be sciencing by oh eight hundred.

Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet

He rolled with the unexpected—and much was unexpected on Seeker trips—because he believed in "No matter what.

Hope in Christ always flows from faith in Christ and represents anticipation, expectation, and assurance that through our acceptance of the terms and conditions of the gospel covenant, we will gain everlasting life, eternal life, God's life.