Quotes About Expectation

I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, thats what you expect to gain.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.

I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.

Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.

Maybe this was the moment everything would change for her. Maybe now the school year was beginning in earnest. That was perhaps burdening the moment with more expectation than it could bear, but, Stevie figured, something about this year had to give.

Nate would tolerate most things for about an hour if he knew there was the promise of a snack and the chance to be left alone in the near future.

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However fond an undergraduate be of his womenfolk, at Oxford they keep him in a painful state of tension: at any moment they may somehow disgrace him.

There's too much dressing up and not enough places to go.

You ever hear about that experiment an American journalist did in Moscow in the 1970s? He just lined up at some building, nothing special about it, just a random door. Sure enough, someone got in line behind him, then a couple more, and before you knew it, they were backed up around the block. No one asked what the line was for. They just assumed it was worth it. I can't say if that story was true. Maybe it's an urban legend, or a cold war myth. Who knows?

Those poor bastards didn't want a rural life. They expected an urban life in a rural setting. They tried to adapt their environment instead of adapting to it.

You ever hear about that experiment an American journalist did in Moscow in the 1970s? He just lined up at some building, nothing special about it, just a random door. Sure enough, someone got in line behind him, then a couple more, and before you knew it, they were backed up around the block. No one asked what the line was for. They just assumed it was worth it.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naïve and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. To see Uncle Sam going back on his word, revoking people's private lives, revoking their freedom…

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.