Quotes About Expectation

Another one of life's little jokes. I thought it was a tumor 'til it started to kick.

She had read the same sentence over and over, and each time she lifted her eyes to look at Graham, he was always there, looking back at her. The wait had seemed endless to her, but finally the lights blinked off and on several times, and the store began to empty out.

Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.

I hope for everything.

If God were a wife, she would have acted sooner.

take care what you ask, for you shall surely receive it.

Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.

guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open. Mom

For that tiny instant, I was every 16-year-old in history, not knowing what the skies foretold about my future.

It was interesting, actually, how everyone's primary feeling-state at that moment was disguised as a different emotion. Sarah's repulsion at being reunited with Liam took the form of outrage at Martin. Liam's passion for Sarah took the form of concern for Karen. And Karen's unbearable humiliation, which she had always expected and never expected, took the form of emotionlessness and not caring. "I

Most people expect that a woman who is being mistreated by her partner will pull away from him. However, in a misogynistic partnership, just the opposite happens. Nothing bonds a woman to a misogynist more addictively than his swings back and forth between love and abuse.

You never know how a story ends until you read the last page

She'd been so hopeful that people would forget her.

H-how many people?" she asked. "About four hundred." Dear God. The room spun and dipped. The buzzing got worse, as did the pressure on her chest. She was going to die, right here at Amy's school. "I know it's more than you were expecting, but how could we tell people no? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To hear someone of your caliber play live." If the panic didn't ease, they were going to hear her play dead.

She'd looked forward

You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Creo que lo más importante a la hora de escribir es pensar que algún lector necesitado espera con ansias ese texto. Comencé a escribir pensando en lo que quería leer. Si mantienes esa premisa, quieras o no, serás honesto.

To look at something which is "empty" is still to be looking, still to be seeing something—if only the ghosts of one's own expectations.

Something is neutral only with respect to something else—like an intention or an expectation.

I think I feel better. I look at everything from the other end—instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Someone is always at the door, no one is ever there.

It's well known by psychologists and anyone with a beating heart that the pain of losing something you're told is already yours is far greater than the pain of not getting something you wish for in the abstract.