Quotes About Expectation

Why do you butcher your carabao and feed a throng because your son is getting a wife?" Father always blustered to them who come asking for loans. But always, in the end, the tenants got the money--what they needed for a "decent" funeral, a baptism, a wedding. And as their debts piled up, they promised, "Next harvest will be good...

Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.

I could be patient. I could. If they'd hurry up.

If she'd been the type to want an uncomplicated, one-off bout of recreational sex, she had to acknowledge that she probably couldn't do any better.

But the old are more resilient than you think. They get used to bad indigestion, putting up with arthritis, gout, gammy legs, bad backs, you name it. They almost expect to hurt.

both with a mixture of relief and apprehension. Jenny could well imagine

The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas.

outline of the large green caterpillar with her finger, waiting for them to pick up. Eventually the answerphone kicked in. Adam's voice invited her to leave a message. The fact that they must be deliberately not answering the phone made her uncomfortable.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Two days?" Decker looked at

Ed ella sentiva che era un altro inganno quell'immaginarsi oggetto di attenzione di qualcuno, quella nuova aspettazione di essere capace di vincere la diffidenza che la amareggiava...[...]. Ah, se l'autore di quella rovina avesse potuto leggerle il cuore, vederne lo strazio! [...]. Poi, i rimproveri che rivolgeva verso di lui cadevano anch'essi; ella riconosceva la propria parte d'errore.

Cada vez tengo más deseos, y menos esperanzas.

La suerte viene a quien menos la aguarda.

Un pájaro de papel en el pecho dice que el tiempo de los besos no ha llegado.

Even young children know what you get when you pay peanuts. Monkeys!

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Desde el día en que entramos en el Bausler Institut no hicimos más que pensar en el día que saldríamos.

No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.