Quotes About Expectation

I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.

Why didn't she go to college if she was so psyched about it?

There are some things you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

I can live with the misery of the defeats. It's the hope I can't handle.

On ne sait jamais quand la vie va vous trahir ; inutile de compter sur le lendemain, ni même sur l'heure qui va suivre ; il n'y a de certain que la mort.

Oare cunosc si altii spaima de-a merge pe-o strada gandindu-te cu deznadejde la toate strazile pe care nu te afli, strazile unde cei care ar vrea sa te cunoasca te asteapta si pleaca, nevazand pe nimeni venind?

That long-gone sense of innocence and trust now reminded her of the feeling she now had when about to put on a new dress, or when given a box of chocolates sealed up in its wrapper. Everything was lovely in the anticipation. There must have been a time, she thought wistfully, when disappointment was an undiscovered emotion.

I will wait for you, Gilles Goëlo. I will wait - for three years, and not one day more. If you keep your promise, I shall be yours and you can do what you will with me. If not-

memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

Siempre quejándote de todo y a la vez fingiendo no darle importancia a nada. Vives de esperanzas pero no sabes ni qué esperas.

En realidad las cosas verdaderamente difíciles son otras tan distintas, todo lo que la gente cree poder hacer a cada momento.

No tenía ninguna fe de que ocurriera lo que deseaba, y sabía que sin fe no ocurriría. Sabía que sin fe no ocurre nada de lo que debería ocurrir, y con fe casi siempre tampoco.

El absurdo es que no parezca un absurdo. El absurdo es que salgas por la mañana a la puerta y encuentres la botella de leche en el umbral y te quedes tan tranquilo porque ayer te pasó lo mismo y mañana te volverá a pasar. Es ese estancamiento, ese así sea, esa sospechosa carencia de excepciones...

como siempre al acecho esperando algo, agazapado para dar uno de esos saltos absurdos de los que salimos todos lastimados.

Sabía que sin fe no ocurre nada de lo que debería ocurrir, y con fe casi siempre tampoco.

He's been waiting for her since five o' clock, even if she wasn't supposed to arrive before six.

The absurdity is that it doesn't look like an absurdity. The absurdity is that you go out in the morning and find a bottle of milk on the doorstep and you are at peace because the same thing happened to you yesterday and will happen again tomorrow.

Un tráfico secreto ordena este desorden, ten confianza y espera. Verás, oirás, perfumarás tu cara con las presencias que derrama esta constelación de sangre.

La vida es una sala de espera –dijo el señor calvo, pisando el cigarrillo con mucho cuidado

Solamente vendrá lo que tienes preparado y resuelto, el triste reflejo de tu esperanza

ya ves, resulta todavía peor, te aparecés como el reverso de mi esperanza, cínicamente me golpeás la ventana y te quedás ahí esperando