Quotes About Expectation

Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worse fears can come true at any moment.

A tr?i înseamn? a aÅŸtepta ÅŸi a îndura timpul.

Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.

All you have to do is give people what they want, reflect themselves back into their own eyes, and they will fall over to crush money into your outstretched hand.

Há uma velha regra que minhas irmãs me ensinaram. Sempre que você se encontrar com uma garota, faça-o em algum lugar bem conhecido. Os restaurantes franceses não impressionam se você não conseguir ler o menu, e filmes intelectuais são um tiro pela culatra se você não compreende a trama.

In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.

Now it's your turn again,' she said. 'Buy me another drink and then tell me what sort of a woman you think would add to you.' Bond gave his order to the steward. He lit a cigarette and turned back to her. 'Somebody who can make Sauce Béarnaise as well as love,' he said. 'Holy mackerel! Just any old dumb hag who can cook and lie on her back?

It reads better than it lives .

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so many preparations have been made on her behalf the happiness and convenience of so many good people would be put at risk.

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!

Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with pleasure, or the expectation of it; if she went away something bad might happen or, worse, something good, something she could not afford to miss.

The future kept arriving. Our bright new toys began to rust before we could get them home, and life went on much as before.

Briony era una di quelle bambine possedute dal desiderio che al mondo fosse tutto assolutamente perfetto.

Now that Stephen had joined the throng he expected, with so much reading and talking and listening behind him, to be an expert, like everybody else. But it was as if he were trying to write afresh a book that had already been written. The ground was so well prepared, planted up with myth and cliché, and the tradition so firmly established, that he could no more think clearly about his own situation than a medieval painter could, by taking thought, invent perspective.

She resented the way she was listening out for him, her attention poised, holding its breath, for the creak of the door or a floorboard. Wanting it, dreading it.

a sound principle being that nothing was ever as one imagined it, and this was an efficient means of excluding the worst.

üks inimene, kes ootab teist, on nagu matemaatiline tehe, mil pole emotsioonidega mingit pistmist. Ootab. Üks inimene ei tee lihtsalt tükil ajal midagi, kuni teine kohale jõuab.

A very smart man I once knew said that anticipation was sixty percent of life

I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. You know those things are unreliable. His voice held just a touch of reproach. "Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

I'll call you, he repeated. If you call me, I won't pick up the phone. You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.

I've read your summary. And? It's not incompetent. Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. Did you expect it to be written in crayon?