Quotes About Expectation

I am tired of waiting on life, it was so slow to arrive and so quick to leave.

I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.

we only pretend to live while we wait on something

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

How very sad anniversaries become. They are for the young and hopeful and for the very old and hopeless. A spark of expectation reveals the gloomy, weary waste.

He had long since decided there was little usefulness in speculating much on what a day will bring. It led a person to the equal errors of being either dreadful or hopeful. Neither, in his experience, served to ease your mind.

You don't wait and wait for the perfect person at the perfect time.

La moralización y la legalización del evangelio de la gracia de Dios es una pobre herejía que se trata de diseminar entre personas desilusionadas que se sienten defraudadas porque no han recibido lo que tampoco tienen razón de esperar.

Britain is relying on you, Bob, so try not to make your usual hash of things.

He stabs at the mouse mat with one finger and I wince, but instead of fat purple sparks and a hideous soul-sucking manifestation, it simply wakes up his Windows box. (Not that there's much difference.)

Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I'll be waiting with a shotgun.

Would you mind finding Eileen and asking her why she's late? It doesn't normally take her this long to terminate an employee.

It's the kind of outfit one wears in the hope of meeting someone who'll help you out of it

One moment you're cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you're in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring from the hole where the starboard engine was meant to be before some toe-cheese puked a missile up its exhaust. It takes a little time to switch mode from business-as-usual to six-alarms-emergency if you're not primed to expect it

It felt like going commando in a miniskirt on a Saturday night in town, even after Jim sent an email to ensure that there'd be a shiny new Samsung waiting for me in DC. Not knowing I could check my team's timesheets on my phone at 3 a.m. felt profoundly wrong.

I've learned that life is never what you expect it will be. Just as you come to the fringes of happiness, touching it, feeling it, tasting it—and desperately hoping for the rest of it—it's jerked away." "You have your art." "Yes, but that's a compulsion, not happiness. I paint because I must. I love because I want to be loved in return. Wanted to be.

The belief otherwise is sometimes called "the gambler's fallacy." In fact, if you flip a fair coin 1,000,000 times and get 1,000,000 heads in a row, the probability of getting tails on the next flip is still ½. The

I won $2 playing the lotto today. And I might win $2 again tomorrow. But if I buy thousands of $1 lottery tickets, each with an expected payout of $.56, then it becomes a near mathematical certainty that I will lose money.

On the other hand, the most likely outcome, meaning the one that will happen most often, is that the company will not discover a cure for baldness and you will get only $250,000 back.

Go then, I will keep a herring in the window for you.

I had always dreamed of being a professional escort but never thought that there was any real money in it.

Listen, Dim Sum, you little fuck fuck, I didn't pay a hundred dollars for a fucking towel rub.

A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.