Quotes About Expectation

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

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

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

Hurry up, please, its time.

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

Patience means knowing it will happen . . . and giving it time to happen.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.

I'm a little disappointed I didn't get fiddled with by a TSA agent at the airport. I feel unwanted. Maybe next time.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

Strangely, while he was being continuously unfaithful himself, he expected—demanded—that she be totally loyal to him.

Disasters often begin silently with an almost imperceptible shift in the way things are expected to be.

It's a funny thing, hope. It's not like love, or fear, or hate. It's a feeling you don't really know you had until it's gone.

I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future, it turns out, is not a tote bag.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage.

the two dresses she'd brought with her in case of—well, just in case—stood in the corner of her closet like guests who have come to the wrong party and are backing out the door.