Quotes About Expectation

His supper still remained spread; and going to the front door, and softly setting it open, he returned to the room and sat as watchers sit on Old-Midsummer eves, expecting the phantom of the Beloved. But she did not come.

For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form—that of absolute faith—is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.

Her refusal, though unexpected, did not permanently daunt Clare. His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative.

However, it is so sometimes, and nothing happens that we expect, he added, with the repose of a man whom misfortune had inured rather than subdued.

His dog waited for his meals in a way so like that in which Oak waited for the girl's presence, that the farmer was quite struck with the resemblance, felt it lowering, and would not look at the dog. However, he continued to watch through the hedge for her regular coming, and thus his sentiments towards her were deepened without any corresponding effect being produced upon herself.

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

Crawford began to underline. "If you assume when I send you on a job, Starling, you can make an ass out of u and me both.

I didn't think anything would come of this canvas,' Crawford said. 'Well, what the hell did you expect me to do?' 'The best you can, that's all.' Crawford rose to leave. 'Busy work's been a narcotic for me sometimes, especially after I quit the booze. For you too, I think.' Graham was angry. Crawford was right, of course.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Atque metum tantum concepit tunc mea mater. Ut pareret geminos, meque metumque simul.

What you probably don't know is that your neighbor in the $300,000 house next to yours bought his house only after he became wealthy. You bought yours in anticipation of becoming wealthy. That day may never come. Each

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Das Gute kommt immer zu spät, immer wird es zu spät fertig, wenn man sich nicht mehr recht darüber freuen kann.

One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him.

He may have been waiting a long while, in snow or rain, yet his joy at my final appearance knows no resentment at my faithlessness, though I have neglected him all day and brought his hopes to naught.

B?rbatul se îmbat? cu propria dorin??, iar femeia cere È™i aÈ™teapt? s? fie îmb?tat? de dorinÈ›a b?rbatului. De aici provine pentru noi obligaÈ›ia pasiunii, de aici decurge înfior?toarea ruÈ™ine a insensibilit??ii, a neputinÈ›ei de a trezi dorinÈ›a femeii.

Se dice que esperar es siempre largo. Pero también es igualmente corto, porque se devoran cantidades de tiempo sin que se las viva ni se las utilice en sí mismas.

m. He has waited so long-and we all know what torture waiting can be! His whole life is waiting-waiting for the next walk in the open, a waiting that begins as soon as he is rested from the last one. Even his night consists of waiting; for his sleep is distributed throughout the whole twenty-four hours of the day, with many a little nap on the grass in the garden, the sun shining down warm on his coat, or behind the curtains of his kennel, to break up and shorten the empty spaces of the day.

Yes, it's almost too beautiful, Tony. By which I mean that it's all too new yet. It still bothers me a little somehow, and that may be why this bad mood comes over me, nags at me, and ruins everything. I was so looking forward to all this, but, as always, anticipation was the best part, because good things always come too late, and then, when it's finished and ready, you can't really enjoy it the way you should.

La esperanza, con todo lo engañosa que es, al menos sirve para conducirnos al final de la vida por un camino agradable.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

True simplicity implies love and trust—it does not expect to be derided and rejected, any more than it expects to be admired and praised.

Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them. If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it! O

But if we love God for something less than Himself, we cherish a desire that can fail us. We run the risk of hating Him if we do not get what we hope for.