Quotes About Expectation

I do have that bad habit, so female, of taking people at their word.

Die Zukunft ist zum Glück meistens nur anwesend // als nächster Augenblick, und dieser Zukunftsaugenblick // erfordert Gegenwart, und zwar des Geistes.

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.

We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits. This way we beat pain to the punch. We will not simply sit/stand/lie like suckers when the practical joke finishes, the push, the pendulum. We will not let ourselves be caught off-guard by joy and its evil conjoined twin, irony.

Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noches de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar?¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo estaba el vacío?

What was I waiting for? For signs and miracles, stars on the firmament..?

qué son las posibilidades? ¿No significan acaso promesa, siempre y cuando seamos valientes? ¿No significan acaso poder de la voluntad?: y saberlo es suficiente para ser capaz de esperar.

Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noche de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar? ¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo estaba el vacío?

Don't you mind, Jottie? Don't you want to have what other people have? Just the regular things, you know, like a date or a kiss or a marriage?

Some of these terms had startlingly wide ranges, which I imagine you experienced in your four-person survey. For instance, "real possibility" had a range of about 20% to 80%. A quarter of the people taking the survey thought the term meant 40% of the time or less. A quarter thought it meant 40% to 60%. A quarter thought it meant 60% to 75%. Finally, a quarter thought it meant over 75% of the time.

I know viscerally how likely 60–40 and 70–30 favorites are to lose (and, of course, the opposite). When people complained that Nate Silver did his job poorly because he had Clinton favored, I thought, "Those people haven't gotten all their chips in a pot with a pair against a straight draw and lost.

At one such tournament, I told the audience that one player would win 76% of the time and the other would win 24% of the time. I dealt the remaining cards, the last of which turned the 24% hand into the winner. Amid the cheers and groans, someone in the audience called out, "Annie, you were wrong!" In the same spirit that he said it, I explained that I wasn't. "I said that would happen 24% of the time. That's not zero. You got to see part of the 24%!

When people complained that Nate Silver did his job poorly because he had Clinton favored, I thought, "Those people haven't gotten all their chips in a pot with a pair against a straight draw and lost." Or, more likely, they've had those things happen throughout their lives and didn't realize that's what 30% or 40% feels like.

To convey my predicament, I never resorted to descriptive terms or expressions such as "I'm expecting," "pregnant" or "pregnancy." They endorsed a future event that would never materialize. There was no point naming something that I was planning to get rid of. In my diary I would write, "it" or "that thing," only once "pregnant.

Quite often I would write down on a sheet of paper the date, the time, and "he's going to come," along with other sentences, fears—that he might not come, that he might not feel the same desire for me.

Me habría gustado no tener nada que hacer salvo esperarlo.

À un moment, je lui ai dit sous une forme détournée que j'étais enceinte, sans doute parce que je pensais qu'il pourrait m'aider.

Je me souviens d'avoir pensé que ce n'était pas le genre dont j'aurais pu être enceinte. « C'est un très gentil garçon, n'est-ce pas ? » Le docteur souriait et il a paru heureux de mon approbation. Il avait oublié pourquoi j'étais là. Quand il m'a raccompagnée à la porte, il paraissait soulagé. Il ne m'a pas dit de revenir.

Il m'arrivait d'oublier que j'était enceinte de deux mois. C'est sans doute à cause de cet effacement de l'avenir, par lequel l'esprit endort lui-même l'angoisse de l'échéance, qu'il sait pourtant inévitable, que des filles laissaient passer les semaines, pus les mois, jusqu'au terme.

Obsession : « Qu'est-ce qu'on va penser de nous ? » (les voisins, les clients, tout le monde).

Angoisse pour le dîner à l'Élysée, lundi, avec Charles et Diana.

Il « devrait » appeler ce soir : en général, il le fait trois jours après la dernière rencontre. Mais le « devoir », la « régularité » n'ont pas vraiment leur place ici.

Monter en ville, rêver, se faire jouir et attendre, résumé possible d'une adolescente de province)

Once a guy has taken out his dick, you think he is going to do it every time.