Quotes About Expectation

She closed her eyes and tried to imagine sex entering the picture. Would sex enter the picture in a silk robe, or would it be as nude as a platter of cold cuts? Would sex enter the picture from the left or the right? Would it ring first, or would it just slide in slyly, too quick and slippery to be denied; or, would sex barge in forcibly, red-faced and green-bereted, pushing all other things aside?

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

What if the Christ and the Messiah come, and they're two different guys?

That princess cannot expect a happy ending who has been rescued by the dragon.

Just as the overturned bucket that was once brimming seems so much emptier than the bucket that never held milk in the first place. Thanks for filling my little pail.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

There is an art to the building up of suspense.

Ma koliko bili stari, uvek o?ekujemo neki obrt, jer smo daleko od zdravog razuma. Svi ti odlu?uju?i obrti desili su se pre više decenija, samo ih tada nismo opazilikao takve, kao odlu?uju?e obrte.

He could tell from the faces of some of the reporters that it was going to be one of those mornings

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

the flirt whom folks called Life, lead them on. Making them think the next sunrise would be worth it.

The kind of clarity crazy people demand from the not-crazy.

He relished never knowing what lay in his path, who might approach with what intention.

Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody thought he could. How 'bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs fell to pieces. Now ain't that slavery or what is it?

But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

fingers into his socks, looking up the inside back of his coat. If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs.

For a while, anyway, until my sex life became sort of like Diet Coke—deceptively sweet minus nutrition.

Come Prepared or Not at All

We have to have HOPE, which is Confident Expectation!

Bramo assai, poco spero (Hope for much, expect little)

It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.