Quotes About Expectation

You might not, not think so now, But just you wait and see someone will come to help you.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.

some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

So you keep running after the things you want, because you think they will satisfy you - and you truly do think that in the past they gave you satisfaction. But the satisfaction itself, the real feeling of it, somehow slips the net. It's anticipated and remembered but almost never experienced.

The pressure for shareholder returns is, however, just one manifestation of how financial gain drives growth. Indeed this expectation of gain is so ingrained that we hardly notice its most unusual feature: it runs counter to the fundamental dynamic of our world.

This waiting is worse than anything. It's like one of those nightmares where you know something terrible is going to happen and you don't know what it is, but you there's nothing you can do to stop it.

what's generally expected, and come prepared.

Wishful thinking, no more than wishful thinking.

Lazarus, come forth. Not unless you bring me my top hat and stick. Stay where you are then, you snob. Not at all. I'm coming forth.

One doesn't expect a falcon to pull a plow, or a butterfly to cook your breakfast.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love...

It could be that the best thing is something different from what you expect.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

With software, you know what you have to do," he said, "but it's always a big surprise how long it will take." Miller

You engage, and then you wait and see.

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

Don't wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.

But there is, of course, no excuse. For it is not really his art but his life that he is talking about, and for one's life not living up to expectation there is no excuse, except for the paltry one that this is true of everybody's life.

Poate c? speran?a e combustia psihic? sub-în?eleas? a vie?ii. Avem s?dit în noi un program de a?teptare al unui "totu?i va fi bine", iar asta, culmea!, în condi?iile în care ne na?tem cu o condamnare la moarte în buzunar. Suntem h?r?zi?i mor?ii, ?i cu toate astea travers?m etapele vie?ii sperând, a?teptând mai binele.

I always wanted to try the Turkish Delight in Narnia. When I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as a boy, I used to think that Turkish Delight must be incredibly delicious if it made Edmund betray his family," A.J. says. "I guess I must have told my wife this, because one year Nic gets a box for me for the holidays. And it turned out to be this powdery, gummy candy. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in my entire life.

Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.