Quotes About Expectation

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO A good year. I always surveyed each new year with optimism, and events almost always proved my outlook mistaken. This year was to be no exception.

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

There is a danger of expecting the results of the future to be predicted from the past.

If .. spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die.

The implication of "good riddance"—that love would switch off, like an electric light, once you realized the object of your love was dumb, or cowardly, or had bad taste—was not strictly borne out by observation.

I wanted to know how it was going to turn out, like flipping ahead in a book. I didn't even know what kind of story it was, or what kind of role I was supposed to be playing. Which of us was taking it more seriously? Didn't that have to be me, because I was younger, and also because I was the girl? One the other hand, I thought that there was a way in which I was lighter than he was - that there was a serious heaviness about him that was foreign to me, and that I rejected.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

Someone would come and see her. Someone always came. There was always a knock at the door. Everyone had a right to come to her; that was what she was for, that was her function, her reason for being. There was never an hour that belonged to her.

Even if things are sometimes difficult there must always be good things to look forward to. Seeing you will be one of the big good things for me.

to avoid feeling disappointed, one has to expect that things will, most probably, not work the first time.

dime cómo me mides y te diré cómo me comportaré". No

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

and the Prospect of that continued Bliss she expected to share with him, took from her all Remorse for having engaged in an Affair which promised her so much Satisfaction, and in which she found not the least Danger of Misfortune.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

So I am going to trust you. I want you to know that if it turns out you're playing me, I'm going to spend the whole endless time the black hole is spaghettifying both of us being extremely disappointed in you.

Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.

What is your agenda, Don Sebastien? What is it you want of me? Of New Amsterdam?

She expected some word from the splinters that threaded her soul. Fasaltsen or the wolf. But they were voiceless.

For all it was the answer he would have expected her to want, it did not seem to satisfy her.