Quotes About Expectation

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

Hee hee hee! You should've seen the look on your face! If mom and dad cared about me at all, they'd buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles.

Dad says that the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it - Calvin

Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin

Pressure is a privilege

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

The boy at the far end of the train car kept looking behind him as if he were afraid or expecting someone

Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and expect admirers, and even philosophers want them; those who write against them want to enjoy the prestige of having written well, those who read them want the prestige of having read them, and perhaps I who write this want the same thing.

When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Ciascuno esamini i propri pensieri: li troverà sempre occupati dal passato e dall'avvenire. Non pensiamo quasi mai al presente, o se ci pensiamo, è solo per prenderne lume al fine di predisporre l'avvenire. Il presente non è mai il nostro fine: il passato o il presente sono i nostri mezzi; solo l'avvenire è il nostro fine. Così non viviamo mai, ma speriamo di vivere, e, preparandoci sempre ad essere felici, è inevitabile che non siamo mai tali.

Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.

The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus, we never actually live, but hope to live.

The future alone is our end. So we never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Be comforted; it is not from yourself that you must expect it, but on the contrary you must expect it by expecting nothing from yourself. (Page 55)

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.

He had expected political protection from his attorney general and was now left unprotected.

You don't understand, Mike. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this.

Tienes esperanzas? —preguntó Lazuli. —Como no las tenía desde hacía muchísimo tiempo —dijo Wolf—. Pero no me inspira mucha confianza. Ocurrirá como las otras veces. —¿Qué pasó las otras veces? —dijo Lazuli. —Nada —respondió Wolf—. Una vez terminado, no quedaba nada. Sólo decepción. En fin....no se puede permanecer siempre a ras de suelo.

if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best... and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.