Quotes About Expectation

Life is funny...we never know what's in store for us and time brings on what is meant to be.

We should live our lives Christ was coming this afternoon!

Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!

Do you get the irony?Who is now talking about, who ain't serious?Oh, we gonna do that and that and that and that?… Yeah, yeah You just wanna trick me one more time….

I consider my time too valuable to be spent in cultivating acquaintance with a person from whom neither pleasure nor improvement are to be expected.

Sometimes you wait for the right time and you run out of time altogether.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.

Yes it's going really well. We are planning on having a baby together.

For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world

Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments.

We will see," he said. "Yes

And yet as the day progressed she had found herself wishing that he would come— now . If not sooner.

He had always a sense of waiting—waiting for something to happen, waiting to move on to the next scene of the drama.

She hoped he would come today. She dreaded the thought of having to go through all this again tomorrow.

Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came.

And probably Sunday evenings too.

She longed for it and dreaded it.

I'll never stop loving you. Don't expect it of me.

She was beginning to feel a sense of release, a hope that happiness still lay ahead of her.

How could she expect ever to find a man who would want to marry her just because she was? It was absurd. And she would have to return the compliment, would she not? She could not expect any man to love her that deeply if she did not also understand that he simply was, and that his wasness or isness made him forever the love of her heart. The love of her life.