Quotes About Expectation

this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So

Bing Crosby and those fellows promised to love deeper than the ocean and higher than the stars for eternity. But who can sustain that kind of emotion for a month, or a year--much less forever? The song ends, the feeling fades, and they're onto the next pretty girl.

nourishing and sustaining. He feels entitled to the best others can offer without

Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what?

But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

Better hope deferred than none.

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

The trouble with bravery is," said Johnny. "that if you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you all the time." "Or," said René, "bravery is often just the action of someone who does not know what to do next, and acts out of panic.

Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning.