Quotes About Expectation

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

When you get to the end of the rainbow, you haven't even started yet.

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.

People expected something for nothing, that's why they did nothing so beautifully these days.

If you want to be happy think about tomorrow but not the day after tomorrow.

Nothing is expensive when you promise.

Don't make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery'er than a huntin' dog that's tree'd it's squirrel.

Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn't squash them.

Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits by the door and hopes."From 'A Walking Shadow

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story.

We sleep with dream, fantasy and hope, but we always get up with reality.

La vita è solo l'attesa di qualcosa di diverso da quello che stiamo facendo; e la morte è tutto quello che giustamente possiamo aspettarci.

My Friend.—Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well to-night. At three to-morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.

The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Pues la vida, después de todo, es sólo una espera por alguna otra cosa además de la que estamos haciendo; y la muerte es todo sobre lo que verdaderamente podemos depender.

Cuando el corazón de una mujer está libre, el que la ama puede albergar siempre una esperanza.

3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.