Quotes About Expectation

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.

In a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

What else should she have expected? That he'd be here, waiting with open arms for her forever? No. She had hurt him. And he had done what any sane person would do. And now it was too late.

a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

If boys were always trying to get in girls' pants, what did they want? What could the girls give them? Pee it seemed to me was an appropriate gift.

Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....

We expect professional and financial success to require time and effort. Why do we take success in our relationships for granted? Why should we expect harmony to come naturally just because we are in love?

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.

Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's quite breathtaking. You see, first I thought you wanted my body, then I thought you wanted my love, then my life even, happily-ever-after and all that sort of thing, and now it turns out it is merely my money. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you.' ... For what?' ... For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that , if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life

I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me, up on that stage and bathed in colored lights, to say something. I opened my mouth and—hooray—they were going to listen.

Have you imagined yourself in Jesse's place? What a confusing situation. The source of your arousal is utterly out of your control. Your intuition tells you that the other, usually so helpful, is now anything but help. Yet the other is laughing, having fun, expecting you to. Here is a reason why you may find it hard even now to know what you do and do not like, separate from what others like to do to you or with you or think you should like.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

waited for her under the maple trees

When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that....

Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22)

Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.

Girl, where were you last night? I waited up until Arsenio was over.