Quotes About Expectation

DON'T MISS THIS. Peter and his prayer-meeting friends seem to have had absolutely no expectation that God would really answer their prayers. Their doubts were so great that when God did answer, they didn't believe it. They had exactly the kind of faith that many of us have been told God won't honor. But he did.

When they prayed for rain, they carried an umbrella.

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

Ventetida var best, eller verst, alt ettersom, når det først skjedde, når man var der, så var det liksom over allerede og noe annet som var sværere og finere eller styggere og jævligere vinka i det fjerne. Og så var det bare å gå i gang med å vente, glede, grue seg igjen.

The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure.

That's not fair." "It's not," he agreed. But it's the truth. Never assume that the two will ride side by side.

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some point she stops asking for what she wants. She begins to expect nothing, so as not to be disappointed when that exactly what she gets. But, it turns out, I do have wants.

With aggressive come-ons, at least you knew where you stood. Holding hands, you got - hopeful.

First, you need to write down fifteen things you think the person will say to your ask. Second, you need to write fifteen things you will say to each of the fifteen responses you think you will receive. If you think this takes time, it sure does. Is it worth it? You bet.

She expected it. You can dodge the first devil that can sabotage your efforts by making sure you ask, not expect.

She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.

That to want to succeed is to fail

I've thought about having a family. I just haven't seen any that really appeal to me.

There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.

She had spent her entire youth waiting and hoping for things that never happened. Now she was thirty.

Pardon me for not being willing to commit my entire future to you based on two kisses and a blueberry muffin.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

The waiting's not the hard part. Waiting can be beautiful, lush, full of possibility.

I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer produces a genie when rubbed and the latter realizes he has nothing left to wish for.

I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.

Schopenhauer writes about marriage. He says getting married is like grasping blind into a sack of snakes and hoping to find an eel.

For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would cross with his, and I never wondered how if would feel to fall in love with a man whose future just couldn't include you.

Hell is never what you think it's going to be" -Guardian