Quotes About Expectation

Well, I'm warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

SCRATCH A FANTASY and you'll find a nightmare." This was one of Caroline's favorite sayings, spoken originally in regard to a mutual friend, a woman who had chased a dream life abroad and wound up trapped and unhappy. Then the saying became code for all those seemingly perfect lives being lived someplace else, with better jobs or partners or inner states.

Finding Caroline was like placing a personal ad for an imaginary friend, then having her show up at your door funnier and better than you had conceived

My heart was in my mouth.

Ramsay Bolton: If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Giving hearts enjoy eternal happiness, self content and independent hearts are generally happy, but, those who always expect from others are mostly unhappy creatures.

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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

On a date I wonder if there is going to be any sex, and if I'm going to be involved.

You can't know what's going to happen before it happens.

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are not generally satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

Take my advice - if you expect no kindness, then you won't be disappointed when none is given; but, Lord, are you all the more grateful for it when it is!" -From "In the Lowlands

Sometimes it's like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it's not even close yet, still, just knowing it's coming is enough to make you snort and nicker. Sort of.

You can't imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example," which was true. We couldn't.

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

I didn't really expect her to accept, not with her being a humanoid and me a barnyard.

An accountability partner provides frank, objective feedback on your performance, creates an ongoing expectation for productive progress, and can provide critical brainstorming or even expertise when needed.

It is Normal to have Chimp outbursts and activity that you will not manage well. Therefore, you should Expect this to happen from time to time. Accept that you are not perfect and this animal is very powerful. Take care of the outburst or activity by appropriate means, such as apologies if you have affected others, or by forgiving yourself if you feel you have let yourself down.

When you throw a tennis ball in the air, you can count on it coming down.

If we are looking for some specific, expected danger, we are less likely to see the unexpected danger.

A woman is expected, first and foremost, to respond to every communication from a man.

Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better

Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn.