Quotes About Expectation

Muita gente, minha filha, só não dá antes de casar porque não sabe que é tão bom ou porque o noivo não pede. Afinal, antes ou depois, que diferença faz, me diga?

Moça de olho baixo é descarada esperando ocasião…

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Dice un refrán japonés que «es mejor viajar lleno de esperanzas que llegar». La frase tiene la virtud de ayudarnos a entender la importancia de ponerle ilusión al camino.

Lo terrible es la esperanza

Las cosas que terminan dan paz y las cosas que no cambian comienzan a concluirse, están siempre concluyéndose. Lo terrible es la esperanza.

Las cosas que terminan dan paz y las cosas que no cambian comienzan a concluirse, están siempre concluyéndose. Lo terrible es la esperanza. Voy a ir a Talca como todos los lunes a depositar en el Banco. Y voy a volver después del almuerzo con las compras para la semana, lo de siempre, azúcar, mate, fideos, sal, ají de color, lo de siempre.

Kimseden hiçbir ÅŸey beklemiyorum. Böylece hayal k?r?kl???na da uÄŸramam?? oluyorum.

Hiçbir ÅŸey beklemiyorum. Böylece hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸram?yorum.

Y por qué no aprendes y haces como yo? -¿Y qué haces? - No espero nada, así no me decepciono...

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are a diminution to his.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

ROM 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation

What you get, you don't want, and what you want, you don't get. David Irving, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (Focal Point Publications, 2014), Pp. 67

Well, come supper-time the woman said: "Go you, and get one o' them there pies. I dare say they've come again now.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

One thing you learn in police work is how to wait. Now you, you hate to wait. You'd make coffee nervous.

Rarely did anyone dream of the Thunders, and anyone who did had a special calling to be a "sacred clown," the one who did the opposite of what was expected.

Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

If you cannot point to a particular actual or imagined room, among the billions of rooms in the world, and state truthfully, Inside that room I will find joy - well, then you have found a useful measure of where you stand in the matter of joy. And in the matter of rooms, too.

See you tomorrow!" Yakone called after her.