Quotes About Expectation

Planning a few anchor events for a weekend guarantees you pleasure because—even if all goes wrong in the moment—you still will have derived some pleasure from the anticipation.

They brought along a young man named Andy who wants very much to see you." She steps aside to let him through. I tuck my hair back behind my ears. Meet his shining gaze and break into a smile. He is so tall.

She turned at the sound of a horse cantering toward them. If it wasn't Benjamin, they could be in a heap of trouble.

want to know is what lies ahead.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realized. I couldn't have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man was. And even so I didn't realize every quality of Bogie's on that day. He was to surprise and delight me continually in the ensuing years

a) he's late. b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off. c)he's gotten into a horrible car crash that's left dead. The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and the limo had to wait in his driveway for half an hour. At the end of the night, we got charged for an extra hour. He- read: his parents- paid for it, but still.)

You can be completely sure what might happen next.

Henrietta Swanson: "She was voted young lady most likely to become charming." Sheriff Taylor: "Well, say now. Becoming charming - that is something to look forward to, ain't it.

As I listened to the lyrics – truly listened, instead of just letting them float over me – the almost-pleasant feelings went away. I'd always thought this was an inspirational song about God or something, because of all the hallelujahs. Only it turned out there were words before and after the hallelujahs, and those words were hardly uplifting.

It's okay if you're not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you're on the way to being happy

eight-o-five, Lars still wasn't here, and Ty had switched

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Can you come here?' I say. I want to touch him before the pain is upon me, before the pain seals me into a selfish world where only I exist. He comes to me, holds my hands. "So this is it," he says. "In a couple of hours we'll be parents.

I'd begun to take for granted that he'd always be around... The only problem with all of this was that I wasn't exactly holding up my end of the deal.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...

Striving for perfection is a good and worthwhile effort. Expecting to actually attain perfection can kill you.

As Magellan expected, Molino accepted the deal, as cruel as it was.

CHARLES PERROW is a sociologist known for studying industrial accidents, such as those that occur with nuclear power plants, airlines, and shipping. In Normal Accidents, he wrote that "We construct an expected world because we can't handle the complexity of the present one, and then process the information that fits the expected world, and find reasons to exclude the information that might contradict it. Unexpected or unlikely interactions are ignored when we make our construction.

Love that is conditional upon looks and performance is not love at all

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.