Quotes About Expectation

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

it was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.

I believe I... offended them in some way. I don't know how. I think my English is not as good as it needs to be in certain situations.' 'It sounds excellent to me.' He sighed. 'That is the problem perhaps. If it was worse, there would be an expectation of...' He laboured silently, then let the sentence roll back down the mountain. 'There would not be the automatic expectation of shared understanding.

Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.

Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.

And you can ah till the cows come home.

The heartbreak of having written and published a first book is that the world then expected you to write a second.

The gentlemen in Berlin are gambling on me as if I were a prize hen. As for myself, I don't even know whether I'm going to lay another egg.

The essence of humor is when our simulation of the future is suddenly disrupted in surprising ways.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

No olvide lo que le digo, el primer hijo embaraza tanto al padre como a la madre.

Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.

sólo emprenden la acción cuando esperan una recompensa, y no disfrutan de ella. Y ese es el motivo por el que no hacen lo máximo que pueden.

Just as we would like to be perceived without assumptions or past prejudices, we can allow their unique qualities to impress us all over again . . . expecting nothing, and accepting them as they are.

A menudo, suponemos que nuestra pareja sabe lo que pensamos y que no es necesario que le digamos lo que queremos.

Everyone looks for someone to love them, even when they hate themselves. They wait for lightning to strike, for the phone to ring, for a knight to arrive in shining armor. When people are disappointed in love, they think they're unlovable. They feel deprived and always hungry. This hunger makes them desperate for any offer of love and attention, and susceptible to all forms of mistreatment. To encourage

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said, if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

a pause so heavy it wasn't just pregnant but ready to break its waters and deliver.

Kris decided to wait and see if this new Wasp was bigger than a bread box and smaller than the mythical telephone booth.

Procurator obserwowa? przybysza oczami chciwymi i nieco wystraszonymi. Tak si? patrzy na kogo?, o kim wiele si? s?ysza?o, o kim wiele si? rozmy?la?o, gdy ten kto? wreszcie si? zjawia.

Mani pirms t?l? ce?a ir p?r??mušas skumjas. Messire, bet tas ta?u ir pavisam dabiski pat tad, ja cilv?ks zina, ka ce?a gal? vi?u gaida laime.