Quotes About Expectation

You're starting off on the wrong foot in every way, my dear. Hold out your hand." I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts.

Jean Louise, did you come down on the train Like That?

Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

There was no doubt about it, I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water.

while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances. "Jem's growing

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.

They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, Po-ork, with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue. She waited a few seconds, then called, Po-ork? When nothing materialized, she yelled, Pork!

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." ? Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

If you treat man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is. But if you treat man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.

Far different was my emotion, when one said to me, with a face like the face of an angel, '' Why should we be bent upon your being better, and make up a bright prospect for you ? I see no brightness in it; and the time seems past for expecting you ever to be well. How my spirits rose in a moment at this recognition of the truth !

For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough. Waiting for perfect love? No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for.

You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

If I had to say anything it'd be this: Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting

Lo que sea que estés buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas

You concentrate on waiting for someone and after a certain time it hardly matters what happens anymore. It could be five years or ten years or one month. It's all the same.