Quotes About Expectation

The mice will see you now," he said.

The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting or can't explain.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

Oh, hello, Arthur Dent here. Look, sorry I haven't been in for six months but I've gone mad." "Oh, not to worry. Thought it was probably something like that. Happens here all the time. How soon can we expect you?" "When do hedgehogs start hibernating?" "Sometime in spring, I think." "I'll be in shortly after that." "Righty-ho.

They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.

ama hiçbir ÅŸey ummamak bu gerçekten doÄŸal olamazd?, deÄŸil mi? Bu nefes almamak gibi bir ÅŸeydi.

Hey," he said, "I thought you said you didn't want to shoot us!" and ducked again. They waited. After a moment a voice replied, "It isn't easy being a cop!

For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised ever again.

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect.

I thought I was going to see God or reach an epiphany or to levitate or something. But I never did. I prayed so long for that to happen. I think maybe I didn't surrender myself enough - I think that's the term: surrender. I still wanted to keep a foot in both worlds. And then this past year I've still been waiting for the same big cosmic moments, and still nothing's happened...

You could return to that same hive a thousand years later and there would be just the same perception of tomorrow as never being any different. Humans are completely different. We assume tomorrow is another world.

It's not like Father to be late

When I walk to the pulpit on a Sunday and see my parishioners seated so properly in their rows, so neatly dressed, so assured and expectant, I am filled with a sense of panic. I have not done what I set out to do. In forty years, what have I given these people? Only a sense of complacency?

If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.

Spiritual people always think the Truth is hidden from them. It is not hidden. What gets in the way is the idea of what it is going to be.

Do not count your chickens before they are .

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.

the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...

I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.