Quotes About Expectation

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. —Anton Chekhov, Letter to Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky

So like Miriam to look for the easy way.

and I had passed forty the previous year, I could no longer expect to look young.

No truth can be determined that concerns the future.

Como seria tão bom se pudéssemos nos relacionar sem que nenhum dos dois esperasse absolutamente nada, mas infelizmente insistirás, infelizmente nós, a gente, as pessoas, têm, temos - emoções.

Querido amor, estou fazendo a minha parte: te esperar. Faça a sua: chegue

Quase todos ali dentro tinham a nítida sensação de que seriam infelizes pra sempre. E foram.

Whatever we're hoping to see, it never quite meets that bar.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. —SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Hines said, "Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen—not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes.

The only thing that will make it possible for you to marry is if you meet your bridegroom on your wedding day, so he doesn't have the chance to get to know you ahead of time.

The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it.

Amina has boundless empathy for everyone but her husband, it seems. How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Ä°nsanoÄŸlu mutsuzluÄŸa al??am?yor, inan?n; çünkü çekmekte olduÄŸumdan daha beteri gelemez ba??ma diye avuturuz hep kendimizi, ama sonra, zamanla, beterin beterinin yolumuzu gözlediÄŸini anlamaya baÅŸlar?z.

Cientos y cientos de bachilleres caen en el íntimo, en el sublime y delicadísimo vicio solitario. Y algunas docenas de muchachas esperan -¿qué esperan, Dios mío?, ¿por qué las tienen tan engañadas? – con la mente llena de dorados sueños…

Don't worry. Here's the thing I've learned about pregnancy. Everything feels like a crisis and everything turns out to be heartburn.

It was about acceptance, he thought. About realizing no one is perfect and no one can expect to change someone else. Which

Lou Perlman dreamed he was on the threshold of a thrilling new life, even as he understood he was travelling steerage on the same old battered boat of wishful thinking.

Be careful. You may get exactly what you wish for.

Chellamuthu expected to feel heroic by helping Anu recover. Instead it was just hard work. Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don't share: Courage comes from doing common things.

No matter how much we cling to hope our stories seldom end as we expect.