Quotes About Expectation

The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably.

a phone without an answering machine would ring incessantly until the caller gave up. You had to answer the phone in order to stop the phone. But the main reason everyone always answered the telephone was the impossibility of knowing who was on the line. Every ringing phone was, potentially, a life-altering event. It might be a telemarketer, but it also might be a death in the family. It could be your next-door neighbor, but it could also be the governor, and there was only one way to find out.

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

If you know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow, the voltage of that experience is immediately mitigated.

Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

If you love something... Set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes

I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.

What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.

Quand'è che il futuro è passato da essere una promessa a essere una minaccia?