Quotes About Expectation

a book with a bookmark inside implies someone has merely gone away, and will be back to finish it soon. Removing the bookmark takes on a horrible finality

When you have the ability to communicate with someone telepathically, people tend to assume you're talking to them all the time, especially if you're not visibly doing anything else.

I am hoping that real aliens are vegetarian only.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing—but we all do and call it Hope.

bag. Of course I had thought about it. I had thought of little else since signing the sales agreement. The closing wouldn't be for a few

I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

Nunca pude soportar ver salir el sol después de una tormenta. Mi idea de un día de lluvia es que debe llover hasta la noche. Que el sol salga a la mañana siguiente, vaya y pase, pero ¿así?... Que el sol interrumpa donde nadie lo llama... En los días de lluvia el sol es un intruso imperdonable

The mornings therefore ....are all the sweeter in the knowledge of what the afternoon is likely to bring.

Actually our ignorance and carelessness are more deliberate than accidental; we are entering Glen Canyon without having learned much about it beforehand because we wish to see it as Powell and his party had seen it, not knowing what to expect, making anew the discoveries of others. If the first rapids are a surprise to us it is simply because we had never inquired if there were any on this stretch of the river.

Hark, a knock at the door!

Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Next year in Jerusalem!

Does she . . . or doesn't she?

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?

No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano [Dawn comes no sooner for the early riser].

Church ain't out till the fat lady sings.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.