Quotes About Expectation

O my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger, Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

And that is why we do it, he decided. Because we hope it will bring us peace. But it never, never does.... Sludig

That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

Hatred is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die of it.

never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.

Why do you look like cheese, Beka? Nestor asked me quietly. We've got help. I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

Come on, Stork Boy, aren't you excited?

Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.

You are already for something. Do you know for what?

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

Allie accepted it as her due that the plane had been overbooked and they were bumping her to first class. Or business class. Or whatever they were now calling those seats an adult could actually fit into.

Do you still have Ms. Dekker? Have her, had her, going to have her again-at least he'd planned on it until the troops had arrived.

If you look to anyone to satisfy your longing, you will think you need something more than him and what he has made you to be complete and at peace. The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you, and you will hold grievances that darken your world. You will become blind to the light that guides to the narrow path. You were taught this on the mountain alone, and yet among others you forget.

If you look to anyone to satisfy your longing, you will think you need something more than him and what he has made you to be complete and at peace. The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you, and you will hold grievances that darken your world. You will become blind to the light that guides to the narrow path.

I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come—a tremendously liberating knowledge.

The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you

For Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset would not spend his life as Earl Clyvedon. That was a mere courtesy title. Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset—the baby who possessed more names than any baby could possibly need—was the heir to one of England's oldest and richest dukedoms. And his father, the ninth Duke of Hastings, had waited years for this moment

Once Spencer was safely out of the shop, John yanked her around to face him and said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Before she had a chance to answer him, Alex showed up at his side, grabbed Emma similarly and hissed, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Persephone looked at Dunford and smiled, waiting for her turn, but much to her disappointment, he just stood there and glared at all three women.

A pier is a disappointed bridge.

We're five minutes away." He

arrive?" He immediately shrugged

Perhaps there was hope for happiness as well, some day in the future. Perhaps I wouldn't always feel so disappointed.

Vivian had hoped her father would be in bed by the time she arrived home, but she was never lucky where he was concerned. The wine shop was closed, of course, but the lights were still on in their two