Quotes About Expectation

Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said. Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more. They found out the following evening.

No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

As the old Ranger adage went "If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.

What have you packed for? A twelve-month grand tour around the country?

If she was expecting sympathy from the older Ranger, she was disappointed. He emitted a short bark of decidedly unsympathetic laughter.

Remember, nobody expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands . . .

Always expect something to go wrong. Believe me, if you wrong, your not disappointed. If your right, your ready for it.

So, not expecting to see anyone, he failed to do so.

People rarely notice what they don't expect to see.

Maybe the wind will get up again," he added hopefully. "Maybe," Jesper replied. He sounded a lot less hopeful about it. "I've found in the past that when you're in a jam and you really need something to happen, it usually doesn't.

Let me put it this way. . . . It's not the best. Eating the bacon is a little like chewing shards of pottery. And the eggs deserved a better fate.

Washhouse is at the back," he said. "Breakfast in ten minutes." She nodded again, uncertain as to how to respond. His tone and manner were not as grim as the previous night.

Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.

Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.

Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands...

If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.

Live continually in an expectation of your great charge. Buy, sell, converse, read, pray, hear, and do all as dying men and passing to receive the recompense of endless joy or woe. Christians, if you would work while it is day; if you would glorify God on earth; if you would not be prey to the prince of darkness; if you would stand with comfort before the Lord Jesus at His dreadful bar; if you would not spend your days without hope--arise, therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with you.

never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

The thing about living with a death sentence for so long is you tend to miss the moment life starts to get better because you're so ready for it to get much, much worse.

NO ONE starts a trip thinking that they might crash. Even though there is always a possibility, no one in their right mind ever begins a journey thinking that it's going to end in failure. There are only two types of people in the world who are aware and plan on crashing before they ever start : test pilots and teenage boys.

Every time I had dared to hope for something in my life, it seemed that fate, like a small, angry child, went out of its way to make sure I not only didn't get it but was instead rewarded with the exact opposite.

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.