Quotes About Expectation

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

A man is always in a hurry to be happy.

The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes

Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall design to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words - 'Wait and hope'.

Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?' said Morriel with tearful eyes. 'Darling' replied Valentine, 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - Wait and hope (Fac et spera)

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,— Wait and hope.

until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, — `Wait and hope.

Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

they are direct commands. This means too little time, too many responsibilities, too many kids, too much work, too little desire, too little experience, and so on are not excuses that exempt us from the expectation to pray.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.

Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making conversation. Oh, why was talking to a boy so fraught with complication?

We have a date, then." "We have a meeting. Blue's is--" "I'll find it." "I'm sure you will." She went to climb in the cab of her truck, then paused. "I don't guess it will do me any good to ask you to stop talking to people about me, will it?" "I don't guess it would, no.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown

Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual's way of being in the world.

None of you [men] ask for anything—except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

turning out as I expected it would.

He's a wonderful dancer,' Laurel cooed. She didn't know; she'd never danced with him. But as long as she didn't act up any more than this, he was satisfied.

She knew he was watching her and she didn't care. She expected it.