Quotes About Expectation

Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.

But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life—more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time—well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life -- more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time -- well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

instant gratification takes too long." Anyway

I always thought that they should make an epidural that works from the neck up, which was a condition I aspired to for most of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life.)

I could've given you so much but you wanted so little

Ich finde es schade, dass es nicht Mark ist - er hätte es sein können. Er hätte es sein sollen. Es hätte etwas bedeuten können. Vielleicht nicht viel, aber sichtlich mehr.

That's why the sweetness of the sexual contact is perfect, but it can only be a dissappointment.

Hope is a crazy thing. It will make you believe.

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

We were rather afraid of the noise of the trains at first, but the landlord said we should not notice them after a bit, and took £2 off the rent.

Of course, if you're hoping for a perfect world, you're bound to be disappointed. But an interesting world--now that's doable. It's right here in front of you.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Spend not on hopes.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

A story given in Lillian Hellman's Scoundrel Time. While attending the funeral of Hollywood producer Harry Cohn with a large number of mourners a friend said to George Jessel - I never saw such a mob at a funeral. Jessel replied - Same old story: you give 'em what they want and they'll fill the theater.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.