Quotes About Expectation

Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.

One lives in the naïve notion that later there will be more room than in the entire past.

One lives in the naive notion that "later" there will be more room than in the entire past.

Everything you want right now, everything you want so passionately and think you'll never get—you will get it someday." I accidentally met her eyes, and it felt like she was talking to me. "Yes, you will get it," she said, looking right at me, "but by that time, you won't want it anymore. That's how it happens.

There is no suffering if you don't want anything.

Everything you want right now, everything you want so passionately and think you'll never get--you will get it someday." I accidentally met her eyes, and it felt like she was talking to me. "Yes, you will get get it," she said, looking right at me, "but by that time, you won't want it anymore. That's how it happens.

Do you think it's going to rain?" I asked. "Yes. Why?" My heart quickened. "I don't know," I said. Then I realized I wanted it to rain because maybe Ivan and his family would come back to Budapest a day early and Ivan might call me. I knew there were a lot of flaws in this reasoning. But my body didn't know.

But I had never doubted that, when I got back to school, I would find an email from him, explaining everything. It was not, after all, conceivable that there was no explanation, or that the explanation could come from anyone else, or that it could come in any way other than email, since that was how everything had always happened between us.

Chinese migrants had learned from long experience to expect little of governments, and to rely much on the networks of kinship, culture, and trust.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss. "I'm sorry, Bridget,

Will you be lighting the lamp, or is it the entire night you expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Alegremente" es la palabra de la casa. Estáis envenenados de alegría. Y no era eso lo que pensaba yo encontrar aquí. Creí que encontraría... a mis verdaderos compañeros, no a unos ilusos».

I asked myself not why I was alive but why I had lived. Out of expectation, I supposed, and wondered whether I still expected anything. It seemed I did. Something more is always expected.

Me pregunté, no por qué vivía, sino por qué había vivido. Supuse que por la espera y quise saber si aún esperaba algo. Me pareció que sí. Siempre se espera más

A cambio de un futuro siempre incierto, no hacemos cola para recibir la ración mensual de arroz, mantequilla o vivienda establecida por algún autócrata, sino que cada uno se lanza a realizar personales aspiraciones, tejiendo una malla de servicios que eleva hasta extremos antes impensables el nivel y la expectativa de vida para individuos y grupos.

Hope says: one day you will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says: all you have left of her is your bitterness. Beat, heart…The earth has not swallowed everything.

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

I knew very well I couldn't give you many things you desired, but then neither will any other woman because what you want doesn't exist and you don't know how to want what's closest to you.

Me he instalado en esta ciudad para esperar en ella el fin del mundo.

He continued to wait as if the force of his obstinacy would influence Judith's actions and will.