Quotes About Expectation

The choice for the early church was clear: either Jesus was just another failed messiah, or what the Jews of Jesus's time expected of the messiah was wrong and had to be adjusted

Living in expectation dis empowers and living in intentions empowers.

But sometimes waiting can be murder…

I don't know what I'd been expecting. You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

El único pesar no era la soledad, sino que los otros se negaran a creer en la gloria que les esperaba.

Bekleneni ve uygun olan? ya?amak kolayd?r. Beklenmeyeni ya?ad???n?zda hayattan zevk almaya ba?lars?n?z.

You're on, Ted," I told him. "Your big chance, boy. Don't blow it. Folks, this kid is going to dance his balls off before your very eyes.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

we tend to focus on the annoying expectation

physics come from, so God must have made them up.' Wherever there is a gap in our understanding, people try to plug the gap with God. But the trouble with gaps is that science has the annoying habit of coming along and filling them. Darwin filled the biggest gap of all. And we should have the courage to expect that science will eventually fill the gaps that remain. That is the theme of this final chapter.

Loneliness, I've read, is like being in a long line, waiting to reach the front where it's promised something good will happen. Only the line never moves, and other people are always coming in ahead of you, and the front, the place where you want to be, is always farther and farther away until you no longer believe it has anything to offer you.

Just exactly what that good life was--the one I expected--I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not come to pass, only that much has come in between.

She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.

If we do not expect the unexpected we will not discover it, since it is not to be searched out and is difficult to apprehend. What

Beware of finding what you're looking for. [ A favorite aphorism he often used .]

The Lady Ishil gestured. Oh, we asked. It wasn't difficult. Everyone in this pigsty of a town seems to know where you sleep. A delicately curled lip. She let him go. And with who. Ringil ignored that one. I'm a hero, Mother. What do you expect?

Real monsters will always disappoint. The unseen threat, the rumour, is a far greater power.

The obsession with time is really an obsession with perfection.

Live with a quiet expectation of good.

It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child)

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition.