Quotes About Expectation

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

We don't get groupies, well I don't see them, anyway. That was something that I always looked forward to and am constantly disappointed by the lack of!

He leaned over and removed the lid, and some really wonderful smells steamed out. But I wasn't going to get excited, not this time, because it was probably Bambi in shallots or Nemo with fennel or—

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

Was auch um mich herum geschah, nie hatte ich das Gefühl, irgend etwas davon hätte mit mir zu tun. Die ganze Zeit über hielt ich gewissermaßen den Atem an und wartete auf meinen Einsatz, wartete auf die entscheidenden Worte, die fallen mussten, damit ich hinter dem Vorhang hervor auf die Bühne treten und mitspielen konnte. Aber das Leben ging weiter und weiter, die Worte fielen nicht, und die Jahre sammelten sich an wie Dreck und Laub in einer Regenrinne.

If you know something will eventually come to an end, you can handle it.

Soldier, you ready to head out?" "Yes, sir." "Flashlight? Pocket knife? Compass?" "Check." "Clean white shirt? Success loves preparation. You never know when a clean shirt will be needed.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

One day you may kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence." "Right, and one day my prince might come." "I doubt he'll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

She thinks he's not an animal like Barrons. That he's more civilized. She right, he is more polished. But it only makes him more dangerous. With Barrons you expect to get fucked up royally. With Ryodan you don't see it coming.

Will an hour be enough?" An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. "I'll see what I can do," I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.

I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman's legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It's a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.

Och, Dani my darling, you're not giving me a single reason to wait for you to grow up. You're giving me a thousand reasons not to." It's Christian! I'm so glad it's him, not one of the other princes! I turn around in his arms and tip my head back. "Hi, Christian!" I beam at him. He's hotter than the other princes. I'm glad I got him. I'll take the others, too, but I want him first. "I want to grow up. Now. Hurry.

I know a thing about resentment: it is a poison you drink yourself, expecting others to die.

We expect Evil to announce itself.

And he would never have instructed her to tell his past self such a story and expected himself to believe it.

The nights go on waiting for a light that never comes

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me.' 

Have I told you, Chloe-lass, that you're beautiful?" he said softly. She narrowed her eyes. If he thought a generic compliment would buy him a kiss, he was sadly mistaken.

She was waiting for him to say something intelligent, Grimm realized. Damn the woman, but she should know better than that. Intelligent just didn't happen when he was around Jillian.

Qué es la confianza, sidhe-seer, sino la expectativa de que otro se comporte de un modo determinado, basada en acciones previas?

He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.