Quotes About Expectation

Our mailman was a dance teacher at night & I would watch him sometimes to see if he would deliver mail differently than the others. I expected to see him leap over bushes with his toes pointing like arrows, but all he ever did was walk.

I always thought there'd be enough time for everything & just today I figured out that's true as long as I don't expect to be alive for it. —Time for Everything

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

You must be out of your mind. These boys are going to explode. I am completely confident that one day they will be bigger than Elvis Presley.

There never was a woman yet that didn't have this in the back of her mind the whole time, this feeling that sex is a bargain, she gives it to you because she expects something in return, and what she expects is you'll give her the rest of your life. I couldn't see this, to me it didn't seem a bargain at all.

My wife is about to have our second child, and we're very happy because we were told we couldn't have kids. By our landlord.

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Expecting defeat will surely bring it

Maybe, she thought, it was because it was still too new. It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.

With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.

When there are large sums of money, method, and institutional expectation on our shoulders, we are tempted to cut the corner of mission and simply gather Christians. If we can conceive of the church as something smaller and simpler, we can plant mission with hope and not anxiety.

My parents' marriage, begun with a pregnancy that produced a stillborn child, was itself stillborn—a union formed with expectation and promise that never delivered.

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

You can wait only so long for a blackened window to be illuminated.

I should have been shocked to see her. But I wasn't. After all, I'd thought, believed, that my mother was dead. I'd wanted her to be dead. And it was very much like my mother to be alive just to show me that what I had thought, believed, wanted, was wrong. "If you desperately want something," my mother wrote in her famous book, "then that is surely proof that you don't deserve to get what you want.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Something great is going to happen today, I can't wait to see what it Is!

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

It is often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. But I suggest that the definition of sanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and being perfectly happy with the result.

Though he was indeed a humble man, he never sought the glory of humility, but only its reality. He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.

I judge people by what they might be--not are, nor will be.

Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.

The brain is a meaning-making machine, always trying to make sense of the world. If our view of the world is that people are good, then we will anticipate good things from people. We project that expectation in our interactions with others and thereby actually elicit good from them. Our internal view of the world becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; we project what we expect, and that helps elicit what we expect.

people. We project that expectation in our interactions with others and thereby actually elicit good from them. Our internal view of the world becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; we project what we expect, and that helps elicit what we expect.