Quotes About Expectation

To assume is to presume.

A little advice about feelings kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle." Dr, Berger

Empaths may unknowingly get involved with toxic partners and become anxious, depressed, or ill. They give their hearts too easily to narcissists and other unavailable people. Empaths are loving and expect others to be that way, which doesn't always happen. They also absorb their partner's stress and emotions, such as anger or depression, simply by interacting with them

To paraphrase a Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want, but you get what you need.

I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly as attractive as he seemed the other night. So I think I'll just pretend that this glass slipper feels too tight.

ready to greet the postman, always opening the door to take in her mail as if her letter box had been sealed up

Can I meet him?" she asked. "Yeah, sure. Why not?" As I said it, I wondered how I was going to make Eric appear. It would be a lot easier to make myself disappear !

Everyone is so excited. We're just dying, Becky! And it's all because of you," Lettie gushed. "If Eric wasn't your cousin, none of this would have happened." She gave me a big smile. "I'm so glad I'm your friend!" You won't be glad for long , I thought. Wait until Saturday night comes and there's no Eric. The girls in cabin eight would probably make me sleep outside with the squirrels. And I would deserve it.

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.

I don't have a story," I said. "I'm still waiting for one.

Ever since The Wizard of Oz I've been accused of being twelve years old. You should see some of the disappointed looks I get, when people lay eyes on me in person. They expect someone in gingham, with braids, to come out singing 'Over the Rainbow.' And out I come, instead.

I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me it was a choice, one of many options. To others it was what women did. We were supposed to breed. It had been decided for us. Society expected it. Religion demanded it.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Dès qu'on nous embrasse, il est bon de prévoir, tout de suite, l'instant où nous serons giflés.

Es wäre unsinnig, das Leben mit Warten auf die zweite Instanz zu verbringen.

stand die Mutter noch immer vor dem Leben wie ein Kind vor den Terrarien im Zoo, an denen kleine Messingschilder mit lateinischen Namen auf Tiere hinwiesen, die man, Augen und Nase dicht am Glas, niemals zu sehen bekam. [...] Die Mutter schaute und wartete, fest überzeugt, dass sich früher oder später etwas regen würde. Ada hingegen hatte sich beim Anblick der verlassenen Behälter sofort abgewandt, die Achseln gezuckt und wusste seitdem nur zu berichten, dass Leere regiere.

Bezv?t?í m? zneklid?ovalo, kdo takhle ml?í, n?co chystá.

Yo, fatalista, mirando la vida llegándose y alejándose de mis semejantes. Yo, dentro de mí misma, siempre en espera de algo que no acierta mi mente. Me, fatalist, watching life coming and going from my contemporaries. Me, inside myself, always waiting for something that my mind can't define. ("Momentos/Moments")

Always expect the worst…and then you might be pleasantly surprised

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.