Quotes About Expectation

One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Midlife is not the end of anything, but in fact the beginning of a whole new phase you can look forward to.

Conversation became strained as they each waited for a sign that they would not be rebuffed.

She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.

Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Tinha andado a manter um silêncio amuado para com ele, esperando avidamente que me perguntasse que bicho me tinha mordido. O problema era que ele não o fazia. Haverá alguma coisa mais provocadora do que esperar que alguém comece uma discussão?

If this is 'good' coffee, I dread what bad coffee might be," I told her. I did as I'd seen Alise do, dumping my unwanted cupful back into the big black pot on the stove. I waited for the tea to brew.

There he remained, not leaning on the railing but standing straight beside her. He looked far ahead to a distant horizon. To a future he had been promised that now seemed far further than days or distance could make it.

When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first

Jonge mensen schijnen er altijd van overtuigd te zijn dat er later meer tijd zal komen,' merkte Burrich op.

Intentions cannot be exchanged for results." - Royal Assassin

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.

The conversation he'd been waiting years for. Quite possibly his entire life for.

Thank God I could say that I had truly enjoyed the journey, because if I had saved all of my joy for the destination, I would have missed it. We are all so focused on getting "there," but you have to be careful. Sometimes, I sense a lot of times, "there" ends up feeling different than you expected.

You're a good date," he said. "You thought of it as a date?" He nodded. "From the beginning.

Cam had slipped under her legs, resting them on his thighs to keep them elevated, so she was too cozy to stay awake. She looked over at him and had to stifle a laugh. His feet were up on the trunk, his head tilted back, his mouth open, and his hand snaked under her sweatshirt to feel her belly. But the movement of the babies hadn't roused him. Yet. She