Quotes About Expectation

Nasuada didn't foresee this delay, now did she? Oh no. She thought I could run flat out from there to Farthen Dûr. Ha! Kicking at a branch

Slow down. The party won't start until I get there - Jo, Remember me. Page 43.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

Sometimes it seems his whole life revolves around watching and waiting. Waiting for the right moment, waiting for the right memory to capture. Hoping for that perfect minute where everything finally comes together.

I suppose if Akkarin came to rescue you all the time, people would say you weren't a good choice. The novices are all jealous of you, not realising that they would be in the same situation if they were the High Lord's favourite, even if they are from the Houses. Any novice he chose would be a target. Always expected to prove themselves.

Mööda koridori tõtates püüdis Rothen Vinara kutse põhjusele mitte mõelda. Peagi saab ta selle niigi teada.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

True confidence is not about hoping that you can take this risk (that's called courage) and overcome this challenge (that's perseverance); it's about realistically expecting that you can do it, based on previously demonstrated performance. A confident guy expects the woman to engage

Cultivate the soul with hope; teach her to await the break of dawn.

a Spring that comes for those who long for it.

is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

Usually the recipe for a bestseller is to give people what they want. My challenge is and was: Give them what they do not expect. Be severe with them. The world of media is full of easy answers, wash-and-wear philosophies, instant ecstacies, what-me-worry Epiphanies. Probably readers want a little more.

Sensing that I ought to become more closely involved in political matters, I realized the most attractive news to fabricate would be what these idle minds were expecting, rather than what the newspapers reported as solid fact.

I believe that when too many people gather together, lured by a promise and immediately demanding something, there is never any knowing who among them speaks.

The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art.

her metin, okurdan onun iÅŸine kat?lmas?n? bekleyen tembel bir araçt?r.

Do not expect too much of the end of the world. —StanisÅ'aw J. Lec, Aforyzmy. Fraszki, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977, "MyÅ›li nieuczesane

Juan XXIII y Benigno Zaccagnini hacían simplemente lo que se esperaba de ellos, y no hay razón para que hubiera que felicitarlos por eso.

Je récapitule. Entrez dans une salle de ciné : si pour aller de A à B, les protagonistes mettent plus de temps que vous ne le souhaiteriez, alors c'est un film porno.

Why do I feel as if I'm about to hear a sentence passed?' 'Why do you feel as if you should?

You notice the General insists upon getting his planes ahead of any other customers. I take it that something is going to happen this spring.

In the south, you see, a lady takes for granted the slave-psychology in those she regards as her social inferiors. Not merely does she expect immediate obedience from all members of the colored race; she feels the same way about policemen in uniform--it would never occur to her to think of a policeman as anything but a servant, prepared to behave as such.

for he seemed to have but one rule: to think of everything that ten thousand Württembergers could possibly want, and promise it to them, to be delivered on the day when they would elect the candidates