Quotes About Expectation

I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her.

She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.

I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then.

He waited rather breathlessly for her next remark...

wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be

I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything.

Le lieutenant la regardait pendant qu'elle me parlait, d'une façon dont toutes les jeunes filles espèrent qu'on les regardera un jour.

Sommer ist nur das uneingelöste Versprechen des Frühling.

When a girl comes out, she needs all the attention.

No te pasa que siempre piensas o esperas que seamos una sola persona, y luego te encuentras con que seguimos siendo dos?

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring.

it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, it isn't.

but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors . . . No, it isn't.

And as far as Norma was concerned, that was the main problem with life. You never knew what was going to happen from minute to minute, and more than anything in this world, Norma hated a surprise.

Alla gente non piacciono questi fatti, ma non so che cosa farci. Se qualcuno ti chiede come stai, si aspetta che tu risponda BENE. Non devi dire che la sera prima ti sei addormentata piangendo perché erano due giorni di fila che non parlavi con un'altra persona. Devi dire: BENE.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

Let us not be deceived by hope, because it betrays, or by love, because it grows weary, or by life, because it satiates but does not sate, or even by death, because it brings more than you want and less than you expect.

I asked for so little from life and life denied me even that.

His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it's perfectly useless to hope.

I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors

Estás só. Ninguém o sabe. Cala e finge. Mas finge sem fingimento. Nada 'speres que em ti já não exista, Cada um consigo é triste. Tens sol se há sol, ramos se ramos buscas, Sorte se a sorte é dada.

Acabaram-de de arder, meu amor, na lareira da nossa vida, as achas dos nossos sonhos... Desenganemo-nos da esperança, porque trai, do amor, porque cansa, da vida, porque farta e não sacia, e até da morte, porque traz mais do que se quer e menos do que se espera.