Quotes About Expectation

I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.

Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?

he kept getting glimmers of hope—hope that died instantly when he moved the chairs aside and saw nothing there.

To have the capacity for happiness was, presumably, to be able to envisage a future in which happiness could have its place.

Ordeals never turn out the way you expect them. Usually when the ones you are expecting finally arrive there is no question of decision at all, and the ordeals of decision turn up on quite other occasions.

Je n'ai jamais écrit, croyant le faire, je n'ai jamais aimé, croyant aimer, je n'ai jamais rien fait qu'attendre devant la porte fermée.

Nunca he escrito, creyendo hacerlo, nunca he amado, creyendo amar, nunca he hecho nada salvo esperar delante de la puerta cerrada.

Ce que je veux paraître je le parais, belle aussi si c'est ce que l'on veut que je sois, belle, ou jolie, jolie par exemple pour la famille, pour la famille, pas plus, tout ce que l'on veut de moi je peux le devenir »

Nunca escrevi julgando fazê-lo nunca amei julgando amar nunca fiz nada senão esperar diante da porta fechada.

Ellas esperan. Se visten para nada. Se contemplan. En la penumbra de esas quintas que se contemplan para más tarde, creen vivir una novela, ya tienen amplios roperos llenos de vestidos con los que no saben qué hacer, coleccionados con el tiempo, la larga sucesión de días de espera.

What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?

She's where she has to be, placed here. She feels a tinge of fear. It's as if this must be not only what she expects, but also what had to happen especially to her.

It's as if this must be not only what she expects, but also what had to happen especially to her.

The only times she did speak was to say how impossible it was for her to express how boring and long it was, how interminable it was, to be Lol Stein. They asked her to try and pull herself together. She didn't understand why she should, she said. The difficulty she experienced in searching for a single word seemed insurmountable. She acted as though she expected nothing further from life.

The space for it existed in me. I knew it the same as other people, but, strangely, in advance.

I can see it's all there. All there, but nothing yet done. I can see it in the eyes, all there already in the eyes.

Nunca escrevi, e pensei que escrevia, nunca amei, e pensei que amava, nunca fiz nada a não ser esperar diante da porta fechada.

Ciascuno di noi ha più qualità di quel che non si creda, ma solo il successo le mette in luce, forse perché allora ci si aspetta di vederci smettere di esercitarle.

Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve, quizá porque entonces se espera que dejemos de manifestarlas.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.

I don't want to be dead. I'm curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?