Quotes About Expectation

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact thjat in times of stress educated people tend to come to the front; they are no more gifted than the others and their education is generally quite useless in itself, but they are accustomed to a certain amount of deference and consequently have the cheek necessary to a commander.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

It is a commonplace that the Christian Heaven, as usually portrayed, would attract nobody.

Even when there was no doubt about the invitation he always half expected that there would be some hitch or other. He was never quite certain of his welcome.

On ne le trouve pas quand on le cherche; il vient à nous quand nous ne l'attendons pas.

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news.

He was the sort of child people imagine their children will be, before they have children.

He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

I just want to say that history, when it arrives, may not look as you expect, based on the reading of history books. Things in there are always so clear. One knows exactly what one would have done.

Someday, I'm sure, dreams will come true. But when? Why not now? Why not?

You were told the big something/someone loved you especially but in the end you saw it was otherwise. The big something/someone was neutral. Unconcerned. When it innocently moved, it crushed people.

We have SUVs and PlayStations and plenty to eat, we roam the earth expecting respect and receiving it, for we are the American Middle Class, and we shall live out the full measure of our days amidst happiness and plenty.

We could understand a story as simply a series of such expectation/resolution moments.

What we want our ending to do is to do more than we could have dreamed it would do. Sheesh.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

When my time is up," I would tell friends, "my dance card is going to be full.

If I were to be asked what we are, I should answer: 'We are the door to everything that can be, we are the expectation that no material response can satisfy, no trick with words deceive. We seek the heights. Each one of us can ignore this search if he has a mind to, but mankind as a whole aspires to these heights; they are the only definition of his nature, his only justification and significance.

The announcement of a vast project is always its betrayal.

Naquel mundo que era o seu, era case obrigatoria desexar sempre máis do que se podería adquirir. Non eran eles quen o decretaran; era unha lei da civilización, unha situación de feito, da cal a publicidade en xeral, os grandes almacéns, a arte dos escaparates, o espectáculo da rúa, e mesmo, en certa medida, o conxunto das produccións comunmente chamadas culturais, eran as expresións máis fidedignas.

We have a tendency to imagine people the way we would like them to be.

You expect all kinds of things, but what real life throws up is always more bizarre.

My house seems remarkably full of people, he observed. Is it possible we were expected.

I have seen what comes of being patient, Amanda said with a boding look. And I have no opinion of it. What does come of it? Inquired Sir Gareth. Nothing!

I'll see the color of your money, my lord. My lord folded the paper. He was still smiling. It would disappoint you, my friend. It is just the same colour as everyone else's.