Quotes About Expectation

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

if Death came he should find me ready

Las damas de honor alegran la vista de los que aguardan la llegada de la novia; pero cuando ésta aparece, pierden todo esplendor para los ojos deslumbrados.

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La vida no es más que una espera de algo distinto de lo que estamos haciendo; y solo de la muerte podemos depender.

Les demoiselles d'honneur réjouissent les regards de ceux qui attendent l'arrivée de la mariée; mais survienne celle-ci, et les demoiselles ne brillent plus pour personne.

Nes juk gal? gale gyvenimas yra ne tai, k? mes darome, o tik laukimas kažko kito, ir mirtis yra tai, kuo galime be dvejoni? pasikliauti.

Was the anticipation worse than the event itself? At

Sex is never messy on screen.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

This isn't a script, Julian says. It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.

I want to watch it again tonight even though I know I won't have enough time to masturbate over the scene where the woman is getting drilled to death by a power drill since I have a date with Courtney at seven-thirty at Cafe Luxembourg.

Oh come on, don't look that way. You have nothing to be ashamed of." "I'm not," she says, trying to act casual. "I just want to know if you're disappointed in me for admitting this." How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to? "You don't know much about me, do you?" I ask teasingly.

She immediately moves into me and says she is sorry and then she's guiding me toward the bedroom and this is the way I always wanted the scene to play out and then it does and it has to because it doesnt really work for me unless it happens like this.

There are some guys sitting at tables who all look at this one gorgeous girl, longingly, hoping for at least one dance or a blow job in Daddy's car and there are all these girls, looking indifferent or bored, smoking clove cigarettes, all of them or at least most of them staring at one blond-haired boy standing in the back with sunglasses on. Julian

I was afraid to try Pellegrino for the first time." She looks over at me nervously—expecting me to… what, agree?—then at McDermott, who offers her a wan, tight smile. "But once I did, it was… fine.

Como Jean poderia compreender que nada pode me desapontar porque não acho nada digno de ser desejado?

Cada día hay todo un ejército de retrasadas impacientes por ser deshonradas.

Luis Carruthers ... takes the seat next to mine which means I'm supposed to take off my walkman

Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus

Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself. In my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize. I desire the tangible.

The unexpected is not always a surprise. —Mentat observation

People often surprise me, but not usually in a good way.