Quotes About Expectation

Esperar comprensión y amor de las mujeres era como pedirle caricias a un puercoespín.

Por mucha tendencia o vocación de esperador que tenga, y por mucha fibra heroica que habite en él, la espera de la llegada del ascensor se le hace infinita.

Considera que la espera es la condición esencial del ser humano y a veces actúa en consonancia con esto.

Y, mirando hacia los rascacielos, se quedó esperando a recibir sensaciones de entusiasmo, de emoción, de plenitud, de felicidad. Sin embargo, la espera se reveló únicamente como una espera, sin más. Una espera plana, sin sobresaltos, sin entusiasmo alguno. Cuanto más miraba a los rascacielos en busca de cierta intensidad, más evidente se hacía que no iba a llegarle sensación especial alguna.

I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?

Ciò che una volta presente non ci turba, stoltamente atteso ci fa impazzire.

El futuro ni depende enteramente de nosotros ni tampoco nos es totalmente ajeno, de modo que no debemos esperarlo como si hubiera de venir infaliblemente ni tampoco desesperarnos como si no hubiera de venir nunca.

We can learn only in the expectation of life. Europe is too preoccupied with its destruction to concern itself with such things. A condemned man is interested only in himself, the passage of hours and such intimations of immortality as he can conjure from the recesses of his mind.

but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.

The child who is taken only as he is—whose potentiality is ignored or slighted—remains where he is, or even slides backward. But the child who is treated as if he is already what he should be, often begins to make the most startling progress to what he can be.

Alguien quien pide de la vida, bien sea por medio de sus actitudes hacia sus supervisores o de la sociedad en general, está fuera del fluir de su manantial de apoyo interno.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

This is a generation best summed up by the kid that will stand in front of a microwave oven shouting, "Come on, I ain't got all minute!

If you excel, you will be "remarkable for being an Indian." If you fail, you will be "no surprise because you're an Indian." Every observation in between extremes will be framed, even

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

If this isn't exactly what went down, it's certainly how it should have happened.

foolishly optimistic

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run.

That's what we do in regard to our sons," Leonard sighed. "We hold our breath.

In 1933, one student said, "Among the public, there spread the expectation that the salvation of the German people would now come from Hitler. But in the lectures we were told that salvation comes only from Jesus Christ.

There's no sense to expect the fruits where the Word really is no longer being preached.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?