Quotes About Expectation

I had half hoped that he would be so swayed by my charms that he would propose to me on the spot—even though I had no intention of accepting

Indians expect to be force-fed when they visit other homes, and they relish the attention. In fact, Indians of my grandmother's generation think it rude and walk away in a huff if the host doesn't entreat them to eat, eat, and eat some more.

Who could guess he'd have a tooth pulled by Shmelke the healer and lie down the next morning and die? It's as my mother says: "Tomorrow is another day—but whose?

Not that I'm waiting with bated breath for your presents. I need your diamond brooches and bracelets like last year's snow.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering.

Keiner weinte hier. Sie hatten begriffen, dass die Erwartung von Trost einen schwächer macht, empfänglicher für Bosheit.

More anticipated the beginning.... Less welcome is the end.... and vice versa

Patience is when you don't eat your egg only to let it turn into a chicken and pay higher dividends

obeyed as King over all the earth."75 According to the clear expectation of the Old Testament, God's kingdom (reign) would be returning to this earth. Did Jesus change this expectation from earth to heaven? A clearer translation of Jesus' words to Pilate is, "My kingdom is not from this world" (John 18:36, NRSV), implying that Jesus' kingdom originates in heaven. But Jesus continues the Old Testament expectation that the kingdom of heaven (= kingdom of God) is coming to this earth.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

I spend a lot of time in the penalty box and I get yelled at a lot by angry hockey fans. I expected Saskatoon fans to hate me.

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

A brand is as much an open invitation to complain as it is a promise to deliver

Anyway, it's liberating when you get to a point in a poem where you can legitimately deviate from the form, and I like the tension that can exist between expectation and execution. Like there's something a little more idiosyncratic or individual going on.

The wildness that comes in the waiting. In the sitting.

Happy endings are only stories that haven't finished yet.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.