Quotes About Expectation

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

In life, you don't get what you deserve; you get what you believe, plan, and expect.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

My mom just told me it's impossible to know what's going to happen in life. Except with breakfast, cause she eats the same thing every day.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.