Quotes About Expectation

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening.

Gates expressed Rockefeller's disappointment at Harper's failure to raise money from outside sources to reduce the deficit.

Our friends do feel that we have not received fair treatment from the Republican Party, but we expect better things in the future.

if a crash is widely expected, it won't occur, for a saving fear will filter through the marketplace.

I guess sometimes you've got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things.

Libenter homines id quad volunt credunt." "Men are glad to believe that which they wish for?" Miss Calicut asked. Professor

Durante siglos, el amor ha sido la única pasión que se nos ha permitido a las mujeres, mientras que los hombres podían apasionarse por muchas otras cosas.

Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action.

As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

Elfrida's vision of an old folks' home was a little fuzzy, on account of her never having been in one.

most of what Man does, moment to moment, is for his imagined future, for the coming time, in which he will be happier than in time present.

Sessizce, Cambazlar bir kez ipin üzerinde dengede durdular m?, kalabal?k yaln?zca onlar?n düÅŸmelerini bekler, dedi.

Rhett: Here's the problem. I am not the sexual equivalent of an espresso machine.

Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality.

If we're not wanting, we're waiting. Waiting for what, we don't know, but something and it's going to happen soon.

In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.

Have this thought deeply imprinted within you: One day when I am ready for it I shall receive what I am to receive.

Nosotros no nos hemos separado por completo, pero aún no ha llegado el momento de que volvamos juntos a la carretera. Ahora está adquiriendo conocimientos en otro lugar. No tenemos más remedio que esperar.

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in;

and he sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house-mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in

On occasions, very occasionally, things happen as you feel they will, as you feel in your bones they will.

But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded.

That trains mostly stay on rails, that the streets are mostly peaceful, that the square continues green and quiet below my window is more than I have any right to expect, and it happens every day.