Quotes About Expectation

We see in others what we want and what we fear.

Everything you are afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot conceive of that happen.

The telephone about to ring.

I brought a condom," I tell her when I slide her panties down. We're both hot and sweaty, and I can't resist hr anymore. "I did, too," she whispers against my neck. "But we might not be able to use it." "Why not?" I expect her to tell em this was all a mistake, that she really didn't mean to get me all hot and bothered just to tell me I'm not worthy enough to take her virginity, but it's the truth. She clears her throat. "It all d-d-depends on whether or not you're allergic to l-l-latex.

ahora quiere que en un solo día pasemos del «Me alegro de verte después de todo un verano separados» al «Tócate mientras me pelo la banana». Tengo la sensación de estar en medio de una canción de reguetón. -Brit

What did you come here for? And where's Enrique?" "He, uh, left," I say nervously. "I think I scared him away." "You? I don't think so." "I showed him what I was wearing under my coat." Alex's eyebrows shoot up.

I came to see a Latino wedding, and I expect to see one," I tell him. "And here I thought you were comin' to be with me." "You've got a big ego, Fuentes." "That's not all I've got." He backs me against my car, his breath warming my neck more than the midday sun.

You're not good at following directions, are you?" He grins as if saying, I'm a gang member, what did you expect?

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

It's all a hold up anyway-- money, body, brains. Do you think anybody's ever satisfied with what he's got a right to?

If you raised a problem, there had better be a problem and you had better have a start, middle and solution to that issue. You didn't start something and expect him to fix it.

First you have to be ready for your wishes to materialize.

The rain will fall down, just prepare the soil.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Christmas is a time of silent waiting.

It's all one thing — both tend into one scope - To live upon Tobacco and on Hope, The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.

People imagine that hope has degrees, but I think not. There is hope and there is no hope.

And perception is a complex phenomenon. Our brains are not cameras or recording devices. Visual perception is active and shaped by both conscious and unconscious forces. Expectation is crucial to perceptual experience, and what to expect about how the world works is learned, and once something is learned well, it becomes unconscious.

It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth.

If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.

In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the next book I will find it - some unspeakable pleasure or startling revelation or extraordinary nuance I had never felt or thought of before.

I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.