Quotes About Expectation

A man is always in a hurry when he wants to be happy.

Wait and hope for!

I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.

The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.

It is not at all foolish to hope for miracles

It was a warm evening, at least by the standards applied in Scotland, where summer is sometimes no more than a promise, an aspiration

Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.

The queue for happiness was not well ordered, he thought; it stretched out and wound round corners, and sometimes, it seemed, the end was so hard to see.

You were looking for somebody, and there was somebody, and you would convince yourself that this random person was what you were really looking for in the first place.

He became quiet. It is always a special moment when you raise a submarine's periscope, because that is when you find out where you are. You hope that you have come up in the right place, but you can never be absolutely sure. So if your hands shake a little as the periscope rises above the waves, and if you feel your heart thump a bit more loudly, then that is entirely normal.

Do you know what makes for a good still life? I'll tell you: it's when the painter manages to convey a sense that something is about to happen. The objects in the painting all look immobile, but as you contemplate them you begin to feel that at any moment there could be movement. Somebody might come into the room. A storm might blow up outside. The wind will move the curtains. All of these things might happen.

Il va arriver. Quand il aura fini de danser avec de jeunes demoiselles ou de faire ce qu'il est en train de faire, il viendra.

We assume so much, don't we? We assume that our children are going to be reasonable. We assume they're going to see things as we see them. And then suddenly we discover that they can look at things quite differently.

But that was then and this was now, when it seemed that people were different. They put up with less; they were more impatient than earlier generations. Why? Because now we were used to getting what we wanted – and getting it quickly, whether it was something ordered online, or happiness itself .

Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

Annabelle finished the explanation. "It's just that they take some time to happen. That's the difference.

Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation.

Without delay," echoed Charlie. "Those are very good words, I think. Without delay. Please will you pay my bill without delay. Please leave without delay. Please improve your attitude without delay…" Mma Makutsi shot Charlie a

You'll grow up. People did not like to be told that, she thought, because we all think that what we are now is what we shall be tomorrow. That was clearly false—but we all believed it.

the fear of what might happen in the future is almost always worse than the future that eventually arrives.

what is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.

You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.