Quotes About Expectation

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

When you hear hoof beats, think horses before you think zebras.

The best Haynes could do was line up perhaps a week of shows, a month in advance. So the band was never sure what the next few months would hold. They'd simply aim for parts of the country where they hadn't been and hope for the best.

Viewing an American University art exhibition dedicated in my honor, the last thing I expected was to be accosted by a ninety-year-old Jewish woman whose head barely reached my belt. "I like you, but I don't like everything your country does," she growled. "Excuse me, ma'am," I courteously replied, "but do you like everything your country does?" "No." She wagged her finger in my face. "But your country must be perfect.

he didn't think much of the ticket. He examined carefully the piece of green cardboard which he held in his paw. "It doesn't seem much to get for eighty pence," he said. After all the lovely whirring and clanking noises the ticket machine had made, it did seem disappointing. He'd expected much more for his money.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray.

It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that.

I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon, said the kid, gravely mistaken.

The question of how you can hope and expect someone to forgive you when deep down you don't forgive yourself.

There were elegantly made up women sitting on bus benches who were not really women and not really waiting for buses.

anticipated doing, anyway. But for now he was

The next ten minutes took ten hours.

Better hope so," she said.

have sat in your mailbox for four days.

Someone's coming." Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf cart making its way up the steep and winding road to the

All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good.

Downtown L.A. was as quiet as Forest Lawn on most weekends, and he didn't expect to find the Happy Hocker open.

Mr. Elliot will see you now.

antivuelco. Como suponía, Banks no tardó

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.