Quotes About Expectation

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The

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De algum modo, não estava nem um pouco surpreso, nem alarmado. Pelo contrário, tinha uma sensação de expectativa tranquila, como sentirá quando os médicos espaciais lhe haviam aplicado testes com drogas alucinógenas. O mundo ao seu redor era estranho e maravilhoso, mas não havia nada a temer. Ele viajara aqueles milhões de quilômetros em busca de mistério; e agora, ao que parecia, o mistério vinha em sua direção.

How do you know that? I followed you. I saw no one. That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.

Now, how did you know that I was going to propose? I asked in genuine wonder. Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?

I'm not certain what you mean by that last bit," I said at last. "As for the first, you said 'until last year.' Does that mean that Lady Tamara has someone else in view?" "But of course," Nee said blandly. "The Marquis of Shevraeth." I laughed all the way up the steps into the Residence.

Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.

So. Are you going to see him again? Technically, I haven't seen him at all . . . (Heroine is blind - LOL)

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Slack your rope, Hangsaman, O slack it for a while, I think I see my true love coming, Coming many a mile

I must say, John, I never expected to find you all so nervous," Mrs. Montague said. "I deplore fear in these matters." She tapped her foot irritably. "You know perfectly well, John, that those who have passed beyond expect to see us happy and smiling; they want to know that we are thinking of them lovingly. The spirits dwelling in this house may be actually suffering because they are aware that you are afraid of them.

Marble is always a shock," she said. "It never feels like you think it's going to. I suppose a lifesize statue looks enough like a real person to make you expect to feel skin.

But some of us go around hoping

If you are not ready in three minutes I will come in and drown you. I want my breakfast.

to send me away." Why me, she wondered, why me? Am I the public conscience? Expected always to say in cold words what the rest of them are too arrogant to recognize? Am I supposed to be the weakest

You know," Theodora said slowly, "up until the last minute—when I got to the gates, I guess—I never really thought there would be a Hill House. You don't go around expecting things like this to happen." "But some of us go around hoping," Eleanor said.

Do you think that woman really means to make us a soufflé? Here is certainly a soufflé dish, and eggs and cheese—

Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with some one.

When Mrs. Ferrier stepped inside our front door at one minute before three that afternoon it was perfectly clear to me without hesitation that we were not going to become fast friends.

Remember, this--this is the end we have waited for so long.

Sarei davvero una bella scema se pensassi che le persone hanno diritto all'amore degli altri; in vita mia ho meritato più amore e ne ho avuto meno di chiunque conosca.

Sosil said a cat licking herself meant a guest was coming.

Pockets he wants! Let his mother send cloth for pockets and he'll get them. There's a fine how-do-you-do! Pockets!