Quotes About Expectation

Duncan would not have been impressed had he known all of that.He was hoping their first meeting would be their last.They were to become great friends,though.They just didn't know it yet.

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We were surprised once, long ago; and now we can never be surprised again.

I've kept the jasmine and rotted horseflesh separate, knowing you'll do the honours. Destiny will greet us. After that you're on your own.

Patience prepares the mind for the opportunity.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

The Snow Leopard's Tale is mesmeric. Tom McIntyre has compressed so many things into so few pages that I can think of only a few other short books that can compare. It was worth the wait for all of us who look forward to reading anything with his name under the title.

There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.

Being in love is an elaborate state of anticipation for the continual exchanging of certain kinds of gifts. The gifts can range from a glance to the offering of the entire self. But the gifts must be gifts: they cannot be claimed. One has no rights as a lover--except the right to anticipate what the other wishes to give.

I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time.

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A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.

When will indifference come.

Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools.

My brother Henry must heir the land, My brother Frank must be at his command; Whilst I, poor Jack, will do that That all the world will wonder at!

In fact nobody died, nobody became ill, and nobody is expected to.

On average, individuals with high income are in a better mood than people with lower income, but the difference is about a third as large as most people expect.

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de

The expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)

On the contrary, a press conference is perhaps the only kind of show whose success is in direct proportion to the number of people who leave before it is over.

We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.

Those children," he said, as he came back, "wanted to see the President of the United States, and I could not disappoint them. They may never have another chance. What a deep impression such things make when we are young!

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.