Quotes About Expectation

It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.

Almost sixty years ago, just after midnight, a few feet from the river where they danced, a wonder of modern engineering occurred: overnight, the Berlin Wall arose. It was the night of August 15, 1961. Berliners awoke on the sixteenth to this marvel, more of a fence at first, concrete posts driven into the streets and festooned with barbed wire. They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who knows which side you will find yourself on?

Well"—Lewis announcing over coffee and honeyed flatbreads—"we are being given an opportunity for a different experience than the one we were expecting.

They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden.

He thinks each day will be better than the next; he is wrong. He awakens the next morning and thinks it again; he is wrong. He thinks we are free to become our true selves, that we are free to love as we choose. A mindset so UnitedStatesian, you could serve it with ketchup. But, friends, you cannot live on ketchup.

one million furious you didn't call for sex, but only five actually available to meet you.

Is there a bucket of blood hanging high in the auditorium rafters, waiting to be dropped

Why did he always assume Mexico City would be like Phoenix on a smoggy day? Why did no one tell him it would be Madrid

They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who knows which side you will find yourself on?

Things are going so well today that it feels not impossible it is the Nobel Committee. But, friends, it is not the Nobel Committee. It is a rule of life, alas, that it is never the Nobel Committee.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

them. The only trouble is that it could take a while because I'm actually feeling pretty healthy. I hear

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

El amor-fantasía, es mucho mejor que el amor-realidad.

So you've gotten very close, you've shared a complete experience. And the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting anyway. Never getting in is the most exciting, but after that waiting to get in is the most exciting.

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

The dreams weren't as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.