Quotes About Expectation

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

But to raise one's hopes is to risk their falling further.

and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.

to raise one's hopes is to risk their falling further.

The bookseller said it's in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second—

She wants very badly for her father to say, Yes, that's it absolutely, ma chérie, but he says nothing.

Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.

The future waited for him to keep his appointment.

The city seems utterly still, as though everyone is listening, waiting for someone to slip.

A vida toda você espera; agora, quando finalmente acontece, você está pronto?

I am quite gifted at waiting.

Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.

But to raise one's hopes is to risk their falling further.

is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.

All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

investigation into the future can make it possible to avoid unpleasant events.

They greeted him enthusiastically as Caesar's son.

was kept waiting in an anteroom and was admitted only after a long delay.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

The computer, however, had been authorized to receive the message, and Yassen saw three words. KILL ALEX RIDER They were exactly what he had expected.

It would be nice to think that I could get to the end of a third outing with some of my reputation still intact.

I have had a long life and I will say that in many respects it has been a good one. I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.