Quotes About Expectation

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

When we are stunned to the place beyond words, we're finally starting to get somewhere. It is so much more comfortable to think that we know what it all means, what to expect and how it all hangs together. When we are stunned to the place beyond words, when an aspect of life takes us away from being able to chip away at something until it's down to a manageable size and then to file it nicely away, when all we can say in response is "Wow," that's a prayer.

Ferlinghetti writing "I am waiting for the rebirth of wonder

Your initial mistake, my dear F'lar," and the Harper's voice was at its drollest, "was in providing salvation from the last imminent disaster in a scant three days by bringing up the Five Lost Weyrs. The Lord Holders really expect you to provide a second miracle in similar short order.

Killashandra steeled herself for yet another protocologically correct reception.

True hope is severed from expectation.

Sometimes things work out differently than you expect, and sometimes that's when the best things happen.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, no in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

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I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!

and every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.

Don't waste your time trying to be reasonable, men do not expect it, and it disconcerts them.

Love that expects perfection—no past with mistakes, pain, learning—is only hunger. No one grows to maturity without acts to be ashamed of; in accepting that, we love not only the strengths but also the weaknesses, and real bonds grow between us.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Hoping for something is not the same as expecting it.

be careful what you wish for; your wish might come true.

I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.

Nuestro mayor error en todo el mundo es nuestra insistencia en considerar cada nuevo acontecimiento como una culminación o un clímax.

He had a dawning sense of how much delight awaited him.

Undoubtedly he will contact me. I know him too well to think otherwise. He will come to me. He will-whatever his state of mind, and I cannot possibly imagine it-come to me to give me some solace, if nothing else.

I wanted those waters to be blue. And they were not.

In a flash I saw the boy in the man's eyes. Only it could not be true. I could not have such luck. For the boy had beauty as bountiful as Bianca's. I did not count upon it.

What could thesee words mean to her? They must have sounded like old poetry. How could I expect her to grasp what I had said.