Quotes About Expectation

Hawaiians believe a baby's name should tell you what that person will grow up to be.

A lark sailed out of a grassy plot and soared high into the sky, and seeing it, he waited for the trill of liquid song to spray out of its throat and drip out of the blue. But there was no song, as there would have been in spring. He

Belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?

She would wait and watch, as she had always watched and waited, hoping that such a puzzle would one day come to her. But if it failed to show itself she would not grieve too deeply, for fear that the mending of broken hearts be a puzzle neither wit nor time had the skill to solve.

If Pitt tells you there's a Santa Claus, hang your stocking on the mantel, because you better believe it.

They asked me how I would be paying and I told them that if past experience was anything to go by probably with my life and the thin girl with the thick spectacles reached deep into her soul for a smile and repeated the question.

He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being published; what once they'd done for fun ruined forever by the burden of expectation, the hope of sales and good reviews and riches, hobbyists turned authors made bitter by the knowledge that they'd missed their main chance.

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.

I always knew our first time would be in a carriage. - Sebastian

I never expected to be as challenged as I've been with you and Miss Stoker. The two of you make a formidable team... Though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, knowing from whence you spring. - Lady Cosgrove-Pitt

You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

The elevator world will look like Heaven but not the Heaven you have reckoned.

Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget.

Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness

Leave every lady with the impression of friendship, and each and every gentleman with an unrealistic hope of much more.

and even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have.

Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.

the words of Bismarck could be applied: "Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.

success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.