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Quotes About Expectation

But sometimes that's because reality is inferior to what life should be like.
~ Sophie Kinsella
There's silence, then the phone bleeps again with his reply: :) I stare in disbelief. A smiley face. Sam Roxton typed a smiley face! A moment later he sends a follow-up. I know. I don't believe it either.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things." She eyes me shrewdly. "You're in marketing. You know that.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Full equity partnership is the highest pinnacle, way above the first rung of partnership. It's the most prestigious job in law. I never, ever, ever expected that.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Please let the press conference be short, I pray. Please don't let the questions go on too long. Please God, please let me have that scarf.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.
~ Gwethalyn Graham
Each morning when you wake, and everyday for the rest of your life... Expect the best of yourself, and accept the rest from yourself.
~ Hal Elrod
Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.
~ Helen Fielding
I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
~ Henry Rollins
Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
~ Hiromi
You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.
~ J.H. Wyman
Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.
~ James Grant
Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
~ James Thurber
The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.
~ Jane Wagner
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Did you ever think we would be anything other than unbelievable?
~ Jessica Shirvington
I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending
~ Jodi Picoult
Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.
~ John Ajvide Lindqvist
You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.
~ Samuel Beckett, Molloy
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
~ Voltaire
I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
~ Mara Brock Akil
Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.
~ Ruth Glick