Quotes About Expectation

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been analyzed. Instead, all I could see were question marks.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen. - 10 January 1953

Si uno no espera nada de alguien nunca se siente desilusionado.

Allí iba yo otra vez, dispuesta a fabricarme una radiante imagen del hombre que me amaría apasionadamente desde el primer instante en el que me viera.

I shall doggedly work, wait and expect the minimum.

Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness & devours views from windows (stories, movies, overheard talk &sights in the street, pictures in newspapers, etc.) with continuous feeling she is 'just about', miraculously, to come into her own her own life

I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, ... I wanted each and everyone of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Você nunca se decepciona quando não espera nada de alguém.

Very simply, you were not wise to give me your image. You should know your woman, and be kind. You expect too much of me; you know I am not strong enough to live merely in that abstract Platonic realm out of time and flesh on the other side of all those mirrors.

La definición de demencia es: hacer lo mismo una y otra vez, y esperar resultados distintos. Mira, si lo que has estado haciendo estuviese funcionando, ya serías rico y feliz.

La definición de demencia es: hacer lo mismo una y otra vez, y esperar resultados distintos.

waited for the flash of green, which I have never seen but some people say exists.

That corpse you planted last year in your garden, 'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?

I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.

What shall we do tomorrow What shall we ever do? We shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door

But time past is a time forgotten. We expect the rise of a new constellation.

What shall I do now? What shall I do? I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow? What shall we ever do? The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four. And we shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.

Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

What's the use of asking for an evening paper? You know as well as I do, at this distance from London Nobody's likely to have this evening's paper.