Quotes About Expectation

Too many things in life are rushed, often producing a disappointing end result.

We were very hopeful of getting Fraizer all the way through. We'll keep in-house what went on, but we were involved with Fraizer until the moment he went to Tottenham.

The lads are on top of the ground at the moment and they look as though they're looking forward to tomorrow.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

While risky behavior might be expected, even praised in a visionary Lead Pastor, second chair leaders are not always known for being risk takers.

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Never before in modern memory had a people who slaughtered another people, or in whose name the slaughter was carried out, been expected to live with the remainder of the people that was slaughtered, completely intermingled, in the same tiny communities, as one cohesive national society.

When I go to bed with a man,' he had said once, and Duncan now said for the benefit of the carriage and the complaining woman, 'I expect him to maintain full erection – full erection – from the moment of nudity onwards . Do I make myself plain? The very first moment of nudity. Anything else – anything that falls short of that – I regard as a personal insult .

I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

If there's one thing more ridiculous than the idea of a policeman who's thinking, it's a policeman saying he expects something important to come of it.

If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye

What Caul liked most about Tom was his kindness. Kindness was not valued back in Grimsby, where the older boys were encouraged to torment the younger ones, who would grow up to torment another batch of youngsters in their turn. "Good practice for life," Uncle said. "Hard knocks, that's all the world's about!" But maybe Uncle had never met anyone like Tom, who was kind to other people and seemed to expect nothing more than kindness in return.

Most of the time he didn't even bother to look back at the boy struggling along behind him on his weary pony. He just tossed words over his shoulder and expected Ansel to catch them.

I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.

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Then came the waiting, a test of patience for even the tenured.

Uncertainty is real," Byers writes. "It is the dream of total certainty

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

Chacun était curieux de voir à quoi pouvait bien ressembler une collation.

A beguiling optimism is often the first step toward folly.

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.