Quotes About Expectation

an idiot with delusions of military adequacy, but I expected better from the Guards. Not much, but a little.

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Anger is really disappointed hope.

Tu es comme tous les jeunes gens, tu attends le grand amour et la vraie philosophie. Au singulier. Rien qu'au singulier. C'est cela le travers de la jeunesse : le singulier.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.

Many are waiting for to the day they can say "Eureka!, I have found it! ". They are not waiting for some kind of device that has still to be invented. They are anticipating the moment all scattered pieces of their life can be gathered. All essential parts of the intricate make-up of their identity are waiting to be revealed and comprehended. The magic "Eureka moment" allows them to enliven and dress up their expectations for the future. ("Waiting for Eureka" )

Waiting is a battle against time. Waiting is time going by and it can be enjoyed, when we are in a privileged state of hope or looking forward. Conversely, waiting can be time wasted or killed, when we are in a state of distress and anguish. ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )

That ought to go well. Watch out for flying hedgehogs!

Hope is easy, but it catches no prey.

Where's Feathertail?" Graystripe's gaze flicked past Stormfur as if he expected to see the pale-gray she-cat waiting at the foot of the rocks. Squirrelpaw stared at her paws. Poor, poor Stormfur. He brought the worst news of all, to RiverClan as well as ThunderClan.

Silverstream is going to have my kits!

Moonflower's ears twitched. "Not for six moons, you won't! And only if you've learned not to eat poppy seeds by then!

The mice aren't going to line up and come running into camp, you know.

The wormcat's back?" He looked Talltail up and down. "I thought you'd left for good.

So?" Violet's mew interrupted his thoughts. "Are we finishing this or are you going to stare at me all day?

It's all right," he murmured into her ear. "Just think how beautiful our kits will be. They'll finally be able to kick you from the outside instead of the inside.

The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Mr. Godot told me to tell you he won't come this evening but surely tomorrow.

The danger of growing up surrounded by these endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them, but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

Soup leaves us full because we believe it will.

Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.