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Quotes About Expectation

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.
~ John Burdett
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
~ John Burns
Nobody heard anything ahead of time.
~ John Mellencamp
Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?
~ John Wooden
I'm not sure that Enrique Pena expected Donald Trump to take him up on his offer to come to Mexico and meet with him in the short period of time that there is between now and the elections.
~ Jose Diaz-Balart
The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.
~ Jose Iturbi
Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.
~ Matthew Donnelly
Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
~ Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona
Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.
~ Ernesto Sabato
You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Fools
when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.
~ Criss Jami
We should always hope and expect to see a brand new day filled with hope, love and joy.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.
~ Sadie Jones, The Outcast
Time is just going on and on .But I still here Idle just Waiting for someone and nothing else
~ Amardeep Singh
Patience is only called patience when it ends up with results that Justify the time awaited, the emotions given and the tears spent.
~ Sameh Elsayed
The hour is only love thus, if you've waited.
~ J. Limbu
We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.
~ Gary Lutz