Quotes About Expectation

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Undismayed by the ordinary evil of the world, he had the place and the power to make good, to do good. And he did so. He believed one could do right. He had been raised to expect that one could. His was the last generation for whom those givens remained as undisturbed as a silk purse.

There are days on which Julia does not open letters. She is overcome, as I understand it, by a sort of superstitious dread, in which she is persuaded that letters bode her no good: they will be from the Gas Board, and demand money; or from the Inland Revenue, and demand accounts; or from some much valued friend, and demand an answer.

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.

She predicted that when she became queen she would feel transformed—grander, nobler, wiser—but she still felt disappointingly just like herself.

They go out into the world expecting adventure, and the patriarchy eats them.

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages.

Failure is good preparation for success, which comes as a pleasant surprise, but success is poor preparation for failure.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between the real days.

Martin smiled, the slow curve of his mouth revealing a dimple in his left cheek. Violet frowned, as she did every time she saw that dimple. It didn't belong on his face. It was as simple as that. Dimples were impish and mischievous. They spoke of laughter and pleasure, not three piece suits and pipes and slippers and cardigans with elbow patches.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

We have to get back to the wedding before the bride comes." "If I have my way you'll come before the bride.

Better to hope for the best and deal with the worst, than expect the worst and miss the best.

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Can the theater teach us to wait? To forestall our satisfaction? Poems teach us how to wait. The natural world makes us wait. Erik Satie teaches us how to wait. And so does much music. Will YouTube teach us how to wait? Will YouTube teach us how to die?  

Now she has turned up, saying all the things I dreamed she'd say.

She let her head sink, until her brow met the varnished glass. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt—they could kiss, make love, do anything at all—and the world indulged them. Whereas she and Julia—

But Helen, Helen,' I said, 'if they expect it to be hard, why don't they change things, to allow it to be easier?

Oh, just look at him! Like a great big turnip, isn't he? We're hoping he'll grow into his head. And his big brother there was just the opposite... Oh, his head was that small, you could've darned your stocking on it!

felt that little quickening. It was just as I imagine a woman must feel, when the baby within her gives its first kick. Does it matter if I feel that, that is so small, and silent, and secret?

Miss Craven held up a pair she thought would fit me—monstrous great things they were, of course, and I thought she smiled as she held them.