Quotes About Expectation

Something wonderful, if you look the long view, was about to happen. If you took the short or medium view, something horrible was about to happen.

I wonder what's the difference between ordinary councillors and privy councillors? wondered the merchant aloud. The assassin scowled at him. I think, he said, it is because you're expected to eat shit.

with the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

But I thought she thought he was just a big pile of jobbies?" he said. "I seen her oout walkin', an' when he comes ridin' past, she sticks her nose in th' air and looks the other wa'. In fact, sometimes I seen her wait aroound a full five-and-twenty minutes for him tae come past, just so's she can do that.

At least nothing particularly dreadful was happening to him right now. Probably it was only a matter of time.

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.

There's nothing more useless in the world than a groom just before the wedding.

You are aware, are you, that painting a few stars on a perfectly ordinary broomstick doesn't mean it will get airborne?

The poor devils. They thought a king would make them free.

And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say 'Yonder is...zer castle' a volf would be bound to howl mournfully. In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

I wonder what happened to 'em all? You, said the horse. Well, yes. But I always thought there'd be some more.

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Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.

MARY: Catherine! Is it necessary to include such a detail? CATHERINE: Do you expect our readers to believe that we had no bodily needs or functions for entire days at a time? MARY: No, but such things are simply—unstated. They go without saying. CATHERINE: It's very fashionable now to include realistic details, no matter how unpleasant or improper. Look at the French writers. Look at Émile Zola. MARY: We are not French.

You are too kind and generous," said Justine. Irene smiled. "Or really, really mad at those bastards. When I shoot a man, I expect him to die!

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

Much of poetry is an anguished waiting." — Theodore Roethke

Things grow for me in the garden, little green promises that, in good time, are kept: I will give you tomatoes, I promise you corn. People do not always keep their promises, even when you tend their soil.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful

No one ever gets what they want. And that is beautiful.

If you always sit in expectation, you're not in the present moment. The present moment contains the whole of life.

In everyone there's a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your email many times a day!