Quotes About Expectation

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face.... The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

È una stanza rovinata dagli uomini nel tentativo di renderla bella per le donne. Gli uomini non sanno quello che vogliamo.

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

It is the power of expectation rather than the power of conceptual knowledge that molds what we see in life not less than in art.

A painting which represents a familiar subject in an unexpected way is often condemned for no better reason than that it does not seem right.

At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a sort of weariness that tells you something is in the air.

Porque es una máxima constante que nadie ve lo que son las cosas si no sabe lo que deberían ser.

For my understanding depends not only on my expectation and experience of possible types of music, but also on my knowledge of possible types of painting-in other words, on the mental set with which I approach the Mondrian.

Absolute certainty is no more attainable in metaphysics than it is in any other field of rational inquiry and it is unfair to criticize metaphysics for failing to deliver what no other discipline - not even mathematics - is expected to deliver.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy.

How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself—hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth—their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.

THE SIGNORA HAD NO business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a court-yard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!

Ronny was ruffled. From his mother's description he had thought the doctor might be young Muggins from over the Ganges, and had brought out all the comradely emotions. What a mix-up! Why hadn't she indicated by the tone of her voice that she was talking about an Indian?

Well, din-din's nearly ready

I expected an ultimatum from my banker by every post. Yet this influence was nothing to the other.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

Even though most people coming to a church for the first time cannot articulate this verse, they are probably thinking something similar to what James and John said to Jesus, "Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. 'Teacher, ' they said, 'we want you to do for us whatever we ask'" (Mark 10:35 NIV, emphasis added). Each week people show up telling the church, many times, "We want you to do for us whatever we ask.