Quotes About Expectation

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.

over het leven] De generale repetitie van een stuk, dat nooit wordt opgevoerd.

It makes no sense to expect or claim to 'make the invisible visible', or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.

Green Christmas, white Easter

An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be--what they once were, before our ancestors' descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days. ("The Striding Place")

But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Il piacere umano (così probabilmente quello di ogni essere vivente, in quell'ordine di cose che noi conosciamo) si può dire ch'è sempre futuro, non è se non futuro, consiste solamente nel futuro. L'atto proprio del piacere non si dà. Io spero un piacere; e questa speranza in moltissimi casi si chiama piacere.

God is never restricted by what people expect of Him. He is able to do better than that.

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. —Margaret Atwood

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

Instead, the dean had said, "Take a look at the person sitting to your left and to your right. Chances are that person will not be there four years from now." Every

Ogni pomeriggio ci trovavamo alle panchine. Era bello avere un posto fisso. Sapere che gli amici sarebbero arrivati era uno dei pochi punti fermi che avevamo.

If you ask her, I'll kill you," says Callie pleasantly. And so it is that when Naomi and Mona are introduced—really, reintroduced—Mona prepares to ask her immediately.

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

Clinton ficou desapontado, como é evidente. Julgava que doravante todos os presidentes russos não seriam mais do que uns bravos porteiros de hotel, a guardarem os mais vastos recursos de gás do planeta por conta das multinacionais americanas.

rampole isn't here and nobody knows when she'll be back

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes.

mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or herself to think only in line with what is expected and demanded.

All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.