Quotes About Expectation

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and empower. ENGAGE

For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

But what does a woman expect for her money? Why do we need to first be made to feel comfortable, flirted with, seduced? Why do we need to create the false sense of emotional ties? Why couldn't we just say, okay, that cave over there, we go in, we fuck, hand over some money, and go on with our lives? Why do I feel so guilty? The feeling that I have used and kicked to the curb another human being won't leave me.

Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said. 'Except it feels good now, at this moment.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

Sometimes the day you long for turns as sour as month-old Yaks' milk, while the one you dread blows in with floral breath.

O pátio [da prisão] era cercado de entradas e saídas. Não dava a impressão de hermetismo, como se deveria esperar. É inevitável que se tenha uma ideia romântica de uma prisão, embora, como era o meu caso, não soubesse o que era o romantismo. Nem uma prisão, para ser sincera. Esta passava uma sensação de realismo exacerbada e destruidora; as ideias prévias, embora não as tivesse, ruíam.

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

What are we all waiting forgathered together like this on the public square?The Barbarians are coming today.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

Nepromišljeno jurimo za novotarijama, gonjeni sve snažnijim osje?ajem nedostatnosti, nezadovoljstva i nemira. Više ne živimo od onoga što imamo, nego od obe?anja, više ne u svjetlosti današnjega dana, nego u tami budu?nosti, koja ?e, kako o?ekujemo, napokon donijeti pravi izlazak sunca.

Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret.

The relationship between a father and his daughters, Joe had discovered, was a remarkably powerful thing. They looked to him to accomplish greatness; they expected it as a matter of course because he was their dad and therefore a great man.

You've ridden a little?" "Quite a bit, actually," she said. He gave her a paternalistic smile. "We'll see," he said.

He smiled in a perfunctory way—his eyes were elsewhere as Danielle walked past after dismounting—and said, "It'll get better tomorrow.