Quotes About Expectation

What is going to happen between you and me in that time? Are we going to do what we both want to do?

Had he hoped, against all logic and sense, to find her broken and distraught with love for him?

What was the point of waiting for a more pleasant post? There was no such thing as pleasure in life for her anymore.

It was a development that she had desired for a long time. But now surely was the wrong time for it to happen.

there was many a slip twixt cup and lip.

She did not want to dance with him. But it was one thing not to want to do so and quite another not to be given a chance to do so. Lord Crensford did not come near her during the first three sets, and after that it was perfectly clear to her that he had no intention of doing so. She was not to have the satisfaction of refusing him.

Ese es el inconveniente de los sueños, [...]No siempre se hacen realidad. Pero siempre aparecen nuevos sueños con los que reemplazar los antiguos. En el fondo somos una especie llena de esperanza.

Of course she wished to go. How dreadful it would be not to be there but to be wondering every moment what was happening, imagining with whom he was walking and talking.

She wished that somewhere in her future there could be a man who would make the world an exciting place in which to live.

She willed herself to show no emotion. She steeled herself for the kiss on the hand that she half expected. She came near to crumbling when he kissed her instead, very gently, on the lips. Had he not gone immediately, in fact, without even stopping to look into her face again, he would have seen the tears spring to her eyes; he would have heard the sobs that felt as if they would tear her ribs apart. But he had gone.

It was a seductive idea that he might not come until tomorrow after all, but on the whole she hoped he would come today so that this waiting, this suspense, might be at an end.

The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.

His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John

He wondered then if Jesus expected gratitude as Lazarus emerged, stinking, from the crypt. Maybe Lazarus was a disappointment to everyone, too.

I've been very active in a lot of charities because I firmly believe that much is expected of those to whom much has been given

Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.

When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope. - The Evil Eye

I'm not surprised at your greeting. I expected it, he said calmly. After all, everyone hates creatures as ugly as I am. But it's your fault that I'm this ugly. You created me this way.

Oh expectation, what a frightful thing art thou, when kindled more by fear than hope!

Vos, mi creador, me odiáis. ¿Qué puedo esperar de aquellos que no me deben nada?

Love is reckless and carefree; small, trifling minds seek profit, but true lovers lavish everything on love and never expect benefits in return.