Quotes About Expectation

They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had been waiting since she was fifteen. A rose and mauve lady that had not yet gathered her flesh and her beauty into dark clothes, and still waited, like a rose stripped of its petals, with her faded colors and her artificial smile, bitter as a grimace.

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.

Nothing on earth is more vicious than a disappointed American public.

There is always a hope and there is always a false hope.

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

All promise outruns performance.

If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!

Perfect love happens not when you're ready but when you least expect, at the most imperfect moment under unpredictable circumstances! Expect Not, Trust Existence!

When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.

But Delhi is a place where people generally assume – far more, say, than in Bangalore or Mumbai – that the world is programmed to deny them everything

If one isn't ready for the feedback, one shouldn't ask.

You never know what the future brings.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you." As he saw things: When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time. Jon warned me that sometimes this took great patience— even years. "But in the end," he said, "people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.

When giving an apology, any performance lower than an A really doesn't cut it.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

Many people might expect the talk to be about dying. But it had to be about living.

If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you.