Quotes About Expectation

Don't you remember? Life is waiting for us...' ' I'm waiting for you... Memories are all I have waiting for me.

Respirar se le ha acabado, se lo digo yo. Piense que un traje de novia es como una escafandra de buzo: no es el mejor sitio para respirar, lo divertido empieza cuando se lo quitan. El Prisionero del Cielo

blue skies of Barcelona. I took a taxi to the school, where I expected to be

A remények, akár szépek voltak, akár nem, ritkán váltak valóra az én világomban.

Pense en lo poco que tenia que ofrecerle y en lo mucho que queria recibir de ella

Nichts überrascht und erschreckt mehr als das, was man schon weiß.

and that the bridegroom had never made it to the church.

What do you expect? One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

Lo bueno se hace esperar.

The calm before the storm.

I've had lots of happy moments. I've been lucky. But I always think the happiest moment hasn't happened yet. I'm talking about the queen of happy moments. The biggie. The unfathomable. The epitome of happiness. The only thing is, I worry that when it comes along I won't recognize it. It'll be flashing away there at the edge of my vision and I'll be looking so hard that I'll just let it float right by.

I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you've been too lucky; at any moment, maybe next Tuesday afternoon, I would be stricken with something unbearable.

Just like Long Tom assumed the mine was his, said Zac. And the businessman assumed... began Christina, who then shrugged her shoulders, well, I don't know what he assumed.

I must remember that. Things become what you expect them to become. But I am granite. Nothing can shatter me.

Stop being picky!" yelled Mandy. "You're down to twelve minutes and you still have to swipe your credit card!

He'd rehearsed in his mind the greeting he would give, the posture he would have, the extent to which he would let the kids hanging around see what was happening between them.

The word deserve causes immeasurable pain.

Dad, that's wonderful!" Nancy exclaimed. "I hope we hear something soon." Her father chuckled. "When you were a little girl, Nancy, you were always eager to have things happen. I used to say to you, 'Hold your horses!' Now I'm saying it again. Don't get your hopes up too high." Nancy laughed. "Spoken like a lawyer," she teased, and then said good-by.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

Instant gratification takes too long.

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Cuando se casó con el capitán era virgen. Cuatro noches después de su boda seguía siendo virgen, y a la quinta noche su estado cambió apenas lo suficiente para dejarla intrigada. El resto sería difícil de contar.

Ninguno de ellos sabía por qué estaban allí o lo que harían, pero sabían que tenían que esperar, y que la hora se acercaba

I know where that distrust comes from. He grins. When I was little, my mom gave me a cookie. The raisins were made to look like chocolate chips. That's when my trust issues started.