Quotes About Expectation

Life is not always what we think it is.

My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon.

There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

Sicilee and Maya are both convinced that once they catch Cody Lightfoot's attention they are as good as on their first date with him, if not actually engaged.

All year you look forward to the summer, and when it finally comes, what happens? Not much.

It was like waiting to speak in front of the class... You have to pretend to be listening, but all you can really think abou tis when it's going to be your turn.

I was hoping something wonderful would happen this summer. Now I just hope I don't melt.

Subconsciously we are lured by the expectation that we will reach a stage where we don't have to fix anything ever again. One day we will reach "happily ever after." We are convinced of the notion of "resolution." It's as if everything that we've experienced up until now, our whole lives to this moment, was a dress rehearsal. We believe our grand performance is yet to come, so we do not live for today.

Those moments where we have a terrible desire to be alone, because we are confident that, face to face with ourselves, we will be able to find and express strange, unique things, unheard; and then disappointment as great as our hopes, when one is alone at last and nothing comes out of that loneliness as expected.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

In the theater," Adelaide went on, wanting him to understand why she found this so interesting, "your audience doesn't expect things to look real. Like, you can't have a real car on the stage, anyway, can you? So instead, you make something obviously artificial. You just create the feeling. And maybe the thing you make, instead of looking real, feels true.

But I know Downyflake only makes cake doughnuts. No glazed. No Boston cream. No jelly. Why are they lying?

Part of me doesn't want to ruin it. Doesn't want to even imagine that it isn't perfect.

Love is always being given where it is not required.