Quotes About Expectation

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8.

The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter

She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:

We were perfectly willing to go in there and rest, but it could not be done. It was only another delusion—a painting by some ingenious artist with little charity in his heart for tired folk.

I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together. Miss

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become. These

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.