Quotes About Expectation

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

Each day is a start of a new adventure, and I eagerly look forward to today.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

These days we have insulated ourselves from the sounds of other people and nature. From infancy we are training young children to expect near perfect silence, and it becomes harder for them to sleep without it.

Always keep this point in mind: the word "delay" means what it says: late. Delayed isn't never, no matter how much it may feel like that at age fifteen or even twenty-five.

Our department takes 1,120 calls every day. Do you know how many of the calls the public expects perfection on? 1,120. Nobody calls the fire department and says, 'Send me two dumb-ass firemen in a pickup truck.' In three minutes they want five brain-surgeon decathlon champions to come and solve all their problems.

Bandini looked at a patch of blue in the east. 'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said. 'We sure will!

When your weaknesses are your strengths, you cry. For crying disconcerts people, they don't know how to handle it; they are expecting violence and suddenly it vanishes in a pool of tears.

Oh, it's a case of 'they think I'll think that they'll do A, so they'll do B because I wouldn't think they'd think of that but then because I might think I know what they're thinking they'll do A after all because I wouldn't think they'd think that way

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.

Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.

It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.