Quotes About Expectation

When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but also threatens disappointment. A re-read is a known quantity.

For that is to be my purpose here, you see, to teach rhetoric to you children: I, who was never a teacher but who liked to converse with my friends and seek out the nature of things." "They have their own imagination of who you are, but you are not that," Kebes said. "Now that's true," Sokrates said. "And perhaps what I shall teach is not what they expect me to teach.

Será que chove, Primo? — Capaz. — Ind'hoje? Será? — 'Manhã. — Chuva brava, de panca? — Às vez… — Da banda de riba? — De trás.

Melhor que era para logo, para o seguinte: dois camaradas do dito fazendeiro estavam ali no Curralim, esperando decisão, agora me levavam.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I'm hoping hard for that.

I had expected the well to be full for some reason. Not that it had ever been before. I kept looking for signs of water in the dark insides. I heard my bucket clank as it hit Against the walls that held nothing. I look at the bucket that came up empty And made a decision that changed my life. I will keep my bucket and find another well.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.

There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term.

Hope-to cherish a desire with expectation of fulfillment.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite... Soon, maybe.

If you want the girl next door, go next door.

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

if she was over-sure of meeting her, that would be the time she would not come.

A short-haired Barbie would be an oxymoron.

And Mike's promised to come.' Doreen

I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

We're going to fuck. Then I think we'll probably do it again. After that I'll buy you dinner, but only if you're nice.

Suppose it was too much to hope for a man who could fix an air conditioner and have a soul at the same time.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

I didn't know why she seemed so sad and happy at the same time. To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.

Maggie shook her head. "I'm not calm, I'm just...hesitant. It's like, I always think pretty soon my life will be this great story, as soon as it starts.

As she walked home that night, she was shaking from the largeness of it. I didn't know why she seemed so sad and happy at the same time. To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.