Quotes About Expectation

Did he want to put a cock ring on me or did he fear I wanted to put a wedding ring on him?

All cynics are disappointed idealists.

Fredi realized that something extraordinary was about to occur. He leaned across the table and grabbed Lorenzo's shirt. "Lorenzo, if what I think is about to happen does happen, I do not, under any circumstances, want to hear you say the word Hooters onstage.

I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful." - from "Dug Down Deep

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Her grandmother wasn't alone in thinking that if you were a vegetarian you had to like tofu, as if it were an obligation you'd incurred.

No one can expect approval from every other person in the world—even the young woman you were in London did not expect such a thing—but I believe all of us can expect those few who matter to us to see past our limitations

She forced her fingers to the television dial and turned it on, half expecting to see herself staring back. But instead, she saw some pretty blonde in her twenties delivering the news in a voice so cherry that it made her want to be sick all over again and heard not a word about a pretty brunet in her thirties who had gone missing, although a man in North Carolina reported seeing Elvis as he was emptying the trash.

Funny how much I've read about this place for months—pages and pages of history. And no idea how little I knew until I came for myself.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

Even as a kid, I always had the ability to see down the line to where trouble lay, or truth. George used to complain that I expected the worst out of life, but it wasn't that. I simply recognized that just because the sun was shining one day didn't mean it would the next. Frost would come, and so would snow. The fact of rain did not rule out the possibility of drought. You could call it pessimism. I based my attitudes on what I saw in the world around me. Not what I dreamed up.

Y siempre las fechas les caían encima como una sorpresa; aunque hicieran planes y cálculos, aunque contaran los días, aunque previeran lo que iban a sentir y lucharan para evitar esta sensación o se abandonaran al deseo de anticiparla e irla fortaleciendo para asegurarle una mayor potencia de crueldad.

Pero, ¿Por qué no acepta que nunca ya volverá a enamorarse? Era cierto; yo no quiero aceptarlo porque me parece que perdería el entusiasmo por todo, que la esperanza vaga de enamorarme me da un poco de confianza en la vida. Ya no tengo otra cosa que esperar.

Lo malo no está en que la vida promete cosas que nunca nos dará; lo malo es que siempre las da y deja de darlas.

Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn't miss an appointment, it never has.

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

La esperanza acaba marchitándose cuando dejamos de esperar la segunda venida de Cristo

Amar es creer, de manera por completo ingenua –y ésta es una ingenuidad preciosa–, que el otro, la persona que amamos, algún día podrá colmarnos.

I'm always assuming things are going to crash and I'm trying to figure out what could go wrong before it happens. It's helpful for work. But it's a terrible way to live your life.

I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship.

Waiting for Prince Charming?" "Aren't all women? And you're waiting for Cinderella." "Actually," Jared said slowly, "I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.