Quotes About Expectation

If I had known what it would be like the next time that I saw them— Well, I did not know then. — It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us.

Jim sat back, taking her hand. "We're going to have a terrific time, sweetheart. Just like the farty-looking couples in the brochures. It'll be great.

Sé que nunca me harías esperar, a menos que tuvieras una buena razón para hacerlo. Te esperaría pacientemente, para que pudiéramos disfrutar el resto de la velada. –No, la pregunta no se refiere solo a mí –dijo él–. Puede ser cualquier otra persona. –No hay otra persona –dijo ella–. No se me ocurre nadie más.

I am quite Pan-like in my naïve confidence that he will play by the rules and keep his word.

Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.

Rudge was not a pessimist, but he'd lived long enough to know that hope had to be kept on a short leash.

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Cuando te separas nunca tienes en cuenta la posibilidad de que al dejar lo mejor que has tenido hasta entonces, no tendrás nada mejor

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

I have bought a house, but not possessedit." She was quite sure that the look in her eyes rivaled that of any light skirts on the streets of London. "And I am sold, but not yet enjoyed.

The last person Jemma expected to welcome into her bedchamber that night was her husband. Though of course she would have to invite him in at some point if they were to embark on their heir-making activities.

He was waiting

I wouldn't have been their choice, their first choice," Stella said. The words hung in the air between them. She hadn't been his first choice, either, and they both knew it.

We draw to ourselves the experiences which we are ready for and which we demand, and most souls do not demand enough.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Don't always expect only compliments from people. Yes, you should expect criticisms sometimes from them. For, everyone doesn't like/love you. I mean, some people are bound to dislike/hate you even for no reason/cause.

Every true leader is expected to be commanding respect/dignity from his/her followers/subjects and not at all to be demanding for it.

Faith is concisely, being hopeful and patient with God even if/when he (God) tarries longer than you expect him.

Hope for positive change is expected of you. But mind you, you have to make the positive change which you do hope for a reality by just daring to work it out yourself.

Hope is synonymous with expectation. In the sense that, whatever you earnestly expect is what you will experience. So what has been your hope all these while? Whatever/however, you've got to hope for riches never poverty, hope for success never failure, hope for greatness never commonness, hope for salvation never damnation.

Hope of/for a positive change is expected of you. But mind you, you have to make the positive change which you do hope for a reality by just daring to work it out yourself.

Never be bothered about criticisms. For, people ought to get at you and even put you down. So, expect to be criticized subtly and repeatedly by people.

One of my strongly held beliefs is that the best of all things is yet to come. Now, that is why I'm never bothered about anything that I have lost. And so I urge you too, never mind whatever that you've lost in the past. For surely, the best of all things is yet to come. -Emeasoba George

One of the attributes of true love is that it shares everything with someone else or others and then expects little or nothing at all in return. Yes! that is it and that is expected of you. ~Emeasoba George