Quotes About Expectation

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.

Mr. Philpotts, did you enjoy your life?" "Why, no, I wouldn't say—" "How then," asked the chief, "do you expect to enjoy your afterlife? What do you know of happiness? What experience have you had in that line?

I haven't seen her since. I wrote to her a few times, not really expecting an answer, for—as she often used to say—the tongue is longer than the pen and can lead you straight to Kiev.

Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. "Again I didn't win? But last year I didn't win also!

four full days before his next start." Vicki's heart stilled in her chest as she watched the

I've hoped for this for so many years, waited for someone to come along whom you could finally love more than your family, someone who would turn you inside-out and toss you off your path,' His mother looked positively gleeful in the face of his misery. 'Someone just like Nicola for you to blow it with.

You never told me how the story ends, Gabe." She held her breath, waiting for his response. His expression held all the love and desire she knew he felt for her. "It doesn't.

But she kept on hoping - really, stupidly hoping - that someone one day would understand what she meant. That one day she'd have a proper conversation with someone instead of just a series of audible misconnections.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.

Are you expecting to meet a dragon?" I asked, and remembered Brook had mentioned them, too. Perhaps dragons were a Northern thing, like flat caps and an ingrained sense of grievance.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

This is similar, perhaps, to the tone in which I say, "Oh, they serve small plates, right?" when someone suggests eating at a tapas restaurant.) Beginning

At some point Billy realized he was expecting the president to act, well, embarrassed? Ashamed? For how fucked up everything obviously was. But the commander in chief seemed well pleased with the state of things.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

The former says he waits for me ahead, but I doubt I'll arrive in time . . .

Were ready for him!

If he has confessed, one would have expected that some of the Abwehr officials closely connected to Artist and Tricycle would have ceased to carry out their normal functions"—like breathing.

Everything was totally normal and the countryside was gorgeous, and in a few days' time one would be going into an absolute charnel house.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist… First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret