Quotes About Expectation

Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.

There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.

With the lengthening days which distinguish the third month of winter from its predecessor, come ardent desires for spring, and longings for the time of birds and flowers. An adventurous swallow too early flying from the south, a vision of snowdrops in the snow, a day of April warmth lit by a slant February sun, are all hailed with pleasure as harbingers of a more gracious season on its northland way.

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Heartache awaits the next love as a seed awaits the spring.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

Here's to Hope! — the child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair, Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt!

Youth which lives by hope is riven by unrest.

The traveler took a long pull and stepped confidently onto the water, only to sink and flounder desperately before he regained the shore. Hey, he shouted at the wizards, why didn't that wine work for me? The wine's fine, a wizard called back. But if you'd told us you wanted to cross, we'd have told you where the rocks just below the surface were.

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.

A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.

I was not surprised. I wanted to be, but I wasn't.

And so he accepted her frigidity as the normal attribute of a lady, and being a gentleman, he expected nothing more.

But it's different with a man. You don't expect him to be a virgin.

And the ending was as she expected it to be . . . and they all lived happily ever after. She wondered about happily ever after. Did it exist only in fairy tales, in stories for children? Or was there hope, really?

STEED: But in a presidential crisis I expect him to be presidential.

We are never prepared for what we expect

Tell me, he said, What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for? Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel. And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Tell me,' he said, 'what is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait. What are they waiting for?

He was waiting, I think, for me to cross that space and take him in my arms again—waiting, as one waits at a deathbed for the miracle one dare not disbelieve, which will not happen.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.