Quotes About Expectation

Puns are at their core defined by multiplicity of meaning, not necessarily humor. The common expectation that puns should always be funny, or die in the attempt, is a relatively modern development.

But do you know, baby, that I have never been Really Married? I mean in White, coming down a Winding Staircase. . . . And I will! I will fall in love again soon—I can feel it—and when I do, I will have my Fabulous Wedding, in a pearlwhite gown

Free your expectation of the future from the grip of past failure.

We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make some assumptions, they might as well be ones that allow us freedom, choice and fun in the world, rather than ones that limit us. You often get what you expect to get.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

The dew on the leaves before the sun rises. The silence before the cock crows. The eggshell not yet broken by its chick. Not what is, but what might be.

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.

You get greatness out of people by expecting it.

The yoke is naturally and necessarily humiliating to all persons, except the one who is on the throne, together with, at most, the one who expects to succeed to it.

The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture, but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing.

The happiness which they (the philosophers) meant was not a life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate enough to obtain it, has always appeared worthy of the name of happiness.

is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself.

And so there was a chair which no one ever sat in standing in the bay window of the living-room. And it was understood that the chair would remain empty until a dog was born at Brookfield who could lie in it without shame.

Waiting your turn is often the worst way to get what you want.

As redes operacionais causam um grande mal por serem suficientemente parecidas com comunidades reais para criar a expectativa de que serão capazes de lidar com as necessidades sociais e psicológicas dos seus membros.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

The high shelf Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm, Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.

predictability

What did you expect?

Stafford was late again, as he had expected he would be late. He signaled the bartender and indicated his empty glass. He burrowed a little more securely in his separate awareness, he nestled a little more deeply into his private darkness, and he waited. In the long run, he thought, that is all one does; wait for people or keep people waiting.

You think there's something here, something to find. Well, in the world you'd learn soon enough. You, too, are cut out for failure; not that you'd fight the world. You'd let it chew you up and spit you out, and you'd lie there wondering what was wrong. Because you'd always expect the world to be something it wasn't, something it had no wish to be.

From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

For a people may endure an almost incredible series of the darkest failures without breaking; but give them respite and some hope for the future, and they may not endure an unexpected denial of that hope.

There is a hope that a dog injects into everywalk, more than a hope- an expectation, really- that this si going to be something wonderful. You'll see, says the dog, something great is going to happen- just you wait.