Quotes About Expectation

I'd believed him. He was supposed to be different, to be more. He'd made me hope for things I didn't think I'd ever get. When hope broke, it hurt. Mine was a very big, very desperate hope, and it hurt like a sonovabitch.

If we agree to your proposal, you'll expect us to abide by your contract, which may require us to compromise our ethics.

Arland had abandoned her the first chance he got. What did you expect? Did you expect he would come and take you by the hand and lead you to a seat at the host table? Yes. The answer was yes. Maud didn't expect it, but she wanted it. Stupid.

She tasted fresh and sweet. What do you know? He had expected poison and ash.

Working for Spider was difficult. He was reasonable, but only when circumstances permitted; understanding of difficulties, yet completely unaffected by them. And he expected impossible things in an impossible timeframe.

he had another think coming.

Arland looked at me as if seeing me for the first time. Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry.

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan. Itulah kebahagiaan.

I kept thinking while I was pushing, I'm going to get huge. I'm going to get huge!" she said.

Four or five false starts are not unusual. Such a pattern is perfectly normal and poses no extra risk to the baby if the water bag has not broken. So why not wait? There is nothing to lose.

How could she tell her that sometimes people didn't get what they wanted? That maybe they were wrong to ever want it in the first place.

Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here...It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid.

Ci sono quelle che aspettano lo stesso uomo, e quelle che aspettano un uomo diverso da quello che è partito, disse fra sé, e tutte restano deluse.

They looked around and expected some miracle: a car, a truck, anything that would take them. But nothing came. So they headed out of Paris on foot, past the city gates, dragging their bags behind them in the dust, then on into the suburbs, into the countryside, all the while thinking, "This can't be happening! I must be dreaming!

The sending of a letter constitutes a magic grasp upon the future.

You're as wonderful as I expected, and I worship you for it.

I just hope — if he does come — it won't be some sort of horror show.

I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.

If I see her she may kill hope.

Coming events do cast shadows.

But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.

I just don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that whatever it is it's got to happen. Next week.

Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.