Quotes About Expectation

Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Meil? akla, jeigu tu užsimerki. Meil? nekantri, ji laukia džiaugsmo, o ne laim?s.

Astound me! I'll wait for you to astound me.

Every woman before her has been a promise unfulfilled.

we always attract into our lives whatever we think about the most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest levels, and/or imagine most vividly.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us by the Father through the crucified one. . . . [T]he more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.3 (Arnold, 81)

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

You can get there from here." That favorite saying of Rick's has become one of mine, too. It's shorthand for a potent way of thinking about the future. "Here" is the present, which is in some way less desirable than our imagined future. "There" is the target of our longing. And "you" are the one moving yourself from here to there. We expect something from the future, and also from ourselves.

how we hope—determines how well we live our lives. John's transformations, from thriving to suffering and back

Romantic comedy heroines were seldom on top of the world, doing exactly what they'd always wanted to do.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

But the hoping, that's what really hurts.

And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

Josh: Just because you're not looking for something doesn't mean you won't find it. Sean: Well, aren't you quite the fucking fortune cookie.

I was working up the courage to knock." "I don't look that bad in the morning." "It's pretty early. I wasn't sure you'd be up.

Why do you have a baby shower? So the baby doesn't stink!

Bobby stopped laughing and craned his head to look up at her. "I hope it's a boy." "So does your Uncle Kevin." "I'm sick of being the smallest boy. We need another one so I have somebody to pick on, too." "Oh…great." It was scary to think her baby was going to be the low man on the totem pole of trickle-down family dynamics.