Quotes About Expectation

A curious contradiction which any child soon sees through occurs when his parents expect to control him when they cannot control themselves.

If I had one wish, I would wish that every good thing I ever wished for would come true.

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Nachrichtensprecher fangen stets mit 'Guten Abend' an und brauchen dann 15 Minuten, um zu erklären, dass es kein guter Abend ist.

Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

The adventure is not in getting somewhere, it's the on-the-way experience. It is not the expected; it's the surprise. Not the fulfilment of prophecy, but the providence of something better than that prophesied.

It is no use getting upset about delays in India; they come with unfailing punctuality.

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life.

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

I'm waiting for something worth waiting for.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

But what if--- Most of what if never happens.

It's that season of unreasoning hope

The machine captured that old sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does.

Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

We are living in the "not-yet" interval between the crowning and the actual reigning. We are living on the "not-yet" possessed part of His domain.

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

He used to say, 'Do, and expect nothing.' And since he did, his deeds combined to make a substantial reality. For such is the way of deeds: if a man does one thing today and another tomorrow, in the course of time they combine into a great deed.

Her ?eye haz?r bulunan ve kimden ne gelebilece?ini bilen bir insan? sarsmak mümkün müdür?

Bütün teessürlerimiz, inkisarlar?m?z (dü? k?r?kl?klar?m?z), hiddetlerimiz, kar??m?za ç?kan hadiselerin anla??lmad?k, beklenmedik taraflar?nad?r. Her ?eye haz?r bulunan ve kimden ne gelebilece?ini bilen bir insan? sarsmak mümkün müdür?

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