Quotes About Expectation

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. There, that's the first sensible thing I've ever said in my life. I wonder how I managed it?

Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond.

There is a bend in the road. I don't know what lies around that bend, but I hope for the best.

Have you ever noticed, asked Anne reflectively, that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?...

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant.

Isn't it nice to think tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Pues yo creo que esperar las cosas con ilusión es precisamente la mitad de su placer

Oh Marilla, ansiar pelas coisas é metade do prazer proporcionado por elas - exclamou Anne - Você pode até não conseguir essas coisas, mas nada pode lhe impedir de ter a diversão de ansiar por elas - Anne

It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled, we would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.

If someone tells me he has bought the outfit of a tightrope walker I am not impressed until I see what is done with it.

E eu devia ser louco de verdade, se esperava que uma boneca como aquela enlouquecesse juntamente comigo, assim por nada.

All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.

Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn't look like Ariel.

What did I expect him to say--that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that.

Just wait, just be patient, he will return.

So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician's assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete.

Wait for it,' the single dash seems to whisper, with a twinkle if you're lucky.

I'm going to brush my hair and change my clothes if we're going out. That gives you two ten minutes to get it out of your system, so I'm not stuck with a couple of frustrated horndogs all day. But no pressure, she added on a laugh as she swung out of the room and started upstairs.

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own? Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it, the second man pointed out with a shrug

Decker lifted his eyes skyward, expecting something to happen. He didn't know what, perhaps for the stars overhead to explode into shimmery fireworks, or for the sky to crack open and pour down rain and thunder to mark the moment. But nothing happened. The most important moment of his life arrived not with a bang as he'd always expected, but with the quiet rustle of wind through the trees and a serene breeze brushing his cheeks.

Love was a gift that should be given freely, and without the expectation of gaining anything in return. It was nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to be afraid of. It just was.

Basically, it seemed to him that when it came to life, you just had to roll with it and wait to see what happened next.