Quotes About Expectation

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

La vie est une sitcom: une suite de scènes qui se déroulent toujours dans les mêmes décors, avec à peu près les mêmes personnages, et dont on attend les prochains épisodes avec une impatience teintée d'abrutissement.

Dragostea este singura deceptie programata, singura nenorocire previzibila, pe care o vrei mereu si mereu.

En el siglo XX, el amor es un teléfono que no suena.

When there is really nothing left to do or believe, except to remember, walking helps retrieve the absolute simplicity of presence, beyond all hope, before any expectation.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

La delusione è un sentimento che non delude mai.

Esta espera de la carta desconocida y que sobrevive a todo, ¡qué signo es de que la esperanza no se ha perdido y de que queda siempre entre nosotros esa semilla!

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Many people see happiness only in their future.

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

The only shadow on my happiness is when I tell myself sometimes that as it's all going well, it can't last, that one day things won't be so good.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

If you unfortunately visit a patient and find him dead, and they ask you why you came, say you knew he would die that night, but want to know at what hour he died.

Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ's body on earth.

Patience is not simply "teeth-clenched" endurance. It is an attitude of expectation. The farmer patiently watches his barren ground because he knows there will be results. He has patience in his labors because there will be products of his labor. So it is in the spiritual realm. God knows the final product of what is happening to us, and He would have us link patience to our faith. Ask God for the gift of patience—and then use it.

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better.

Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!

I EXPECT MEASURABLE PROGRESS IN A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME.