Quotes About Expectation

For a moment in time she'd expected his narrative to end the way Cinderella's story had, and not the way a Greek myth would.

Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.

It is no wonder women have a reputation for patience which is not shared by men. We spend so much of our time waiting. Waiting for a child to be born. Waiting for a man to come home, from the fields, from the sea, from battle. Waiting endlessly for news. That can be the worst, as fear bites deep at the vitals, and seizes the heart with chill fingers. The mind can make strange and horrible pictures, while you are waiting.

To allow hope into the heart is to open oneself to bitter disappointment.

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

There are all kinds of life, and sometimes the other side of the hill looks greener. What's hardest for me is not knowing what living like this will ever come to.

Femeia aÅŸtepta b?taia, c?ci pedeapsa primit? înseamn?, într-un fel, crim? r?scump?rat.

Grea era aÅŸteptarea! Timpul p?rea strans în nesfarÅŸite cute adanci, ca niÅŸte foaie. Dac? nu se oprea la fiecare cut?, erau tot soiul de b?nuieli, fiecare cu arma ei. ÎÅ£i trebuia un efort teribil ca s? mergi înainte, f?candu-te c? nu le crezi ÅŸi dandu-le la o parte. În fine, dup? ce aÅŸteptase toat? noaptea, venir? zorile. DimineaÅ£a radea de el, lipindu-ÅŸi faÅ£a, ca burta unui melc, de geamul ferestrei.

Vaguely, I began to regret having come. Institute sounded respectable enough, but this was the kind of setup some neighborhood practitioner might choose.

Choosing a standard, in other words, is to commit oneself to others.

To the left of the rubber boots in the front lie the corpse of the mask and the button. I leave it all up to you. I shall have returned home a step ahead of you. I pray with all my heart that you will come back with your usual expression, as if nothing has happened.…

as far as tomorrow is concerned, even the weather report isn't very reliable, you know.

If you could know what was going to happen tomorrow so easily, there wouldn't be much use for fortunetellers, would there?

I liked my feet and my legs and I liked how I walked into a room, expecting to find people who would be glad to see me.

We had for so long accepted her obedience to our will that when it ceased to be given naturally, it came as a considerable chock; yet there was no option but to accept the change, strange and bewildering as it was, for obedience cannot be extorted.

Iubirea înseamn?, în esen??, a fi însetat de ceva ce r?mâne absent. De aceea iubirea omeneasc? este atât de dezam?gitoare.

It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see, and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take out their eyes.

It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see, and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

As we've practiced it, Angus! Let him in, fetch him a glass of that horrid port we purchased in the village. When you're done, send Mary upstairs right away with a bucket of water. I need to wash. Angus paused, one large hand on the doorknob. Now? But MacLean's already here. She lifted her chin. I waited for MacLean; now he can wait for me . Angus grinned, Very well, miss.

It's the pure excitement of the find combined with the golden possibilities of what-may-be; one of bated breath, thundering heart,damp palms, and trembling limbs; a mixture of excruciating hope and the painfully exquisite fear of disappointment. It's a feeling that only another adventurer can truly understand.

Just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball, or even that I want to.

Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary.