Quotes About Expectation

Levi always said if you heard hoofbeats, expect to see horses, not zebras.

What some people don't understand about new clothes is it's not about the clothes. It's the promise of how happy you'll be when you wear them, the wonderful things you'll be doing in them, how people will look at you and say, yes, there's a woman who really likes herself.

the time between almost and right away...

I didn't expect the wilderness of love to be something you had to pack for.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst?

A dark purple sky filled with the first few evening stars made her feel small. She smiled; that was what she expected from the sky. All her life, she'd gone out at night and stood beneath that blue velvet darkness. It was her temple, the true house of God, and it never failed to remind her of her place.

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn't that what her father's lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.

The modern partisan expects neither law nor mercy from the enemy.

Je kleiner das Opfer ist, welches wir von unserem Gegner fordern, um so geringer dürfen wir erwarten, daß seine Anstrengungen sein warden, es uns zu versagen. Je geringer aber diese sind, um so kleiner dürfen auch die unsrigen bleiben.

der Handelnde im Kriege die Dinge unaufhörlich anders findet, als er sie erwartet hatte

L'altra parola, che ritorna sempre nei discorsi è crai, il cras latino, domani. Tutto quello che si aspetta, che deve arrivare, che deve essere fatto o mutato, è crai. Ma crai significa mai.

What I see, in other words, is not a reproduction of the external world. It is what I expect, corrected by what I can grasp. The relevant input is not that which confirms what we already know, but that which contradicts our expectations.

preprandial

Empecé a seguir - una gota entre la corriente - el rumbo de la masa humana que, cargada de maletas, se volcaba en la salida. Mi equipaje era un maletón muy pesado - porque estaba casi lleno de libros - y lo llevaba yo misma con toda la fuerza de mi juventud y de mi ansiosa expectación.

Llegaba a mi casa, de la que ninguna invitación a un veraneo maravilloso me iba a salvar, de vuelta de mi primer baile en el que no había bailado.

Então se não vieste à caça, não se procura, encontra-se. E encontrámos este sítio. Some-se se o recusarmos. É o adequado por ser este mesmo, Mariana, o sítio onde a lebre dorme no campo, onde está agachada à nossa espera, a surpresa.

Some people are not used to an environment where excellence is expected

She tried to stare hard past all this, down the road to the patch where this would end badly. But the view was obscured by hope and distance, and by the mist that always lies over the new.

I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one. —Ruth

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

I said to David, "You know, in France, when they're nice to you, you feel like you've passed a test. But in Italy, there is no test.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

by Saturday,