Quotes About Expectation

we are in the position of a person who knows the ending of a book and who for amusement, is reading the early chapters. We enjoy them once again; but we are hardly thrilled and excited by them anymore, we know what happened

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

Revenge is a good motivator, but it always disappoints in the end.

I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.

Lexie was used to people wanting her opinion, to the point where she often assumed they did and just hadn't quite said so.

She would listen and listen, waiting for them to come and find her. We didn't know , Hannah thinks. We would have come.

The letter arrives on a Friday. I would like that, very much.

Inside Lydia could feel it: everything that was to come . . . It was far away then, tiny in the distance, but Lydia already knew it would happen. The knowledge hovered all around her, clinging to her, every day getting thicker. Everywhere she went, it was there.

She still powdered her nose after cooking and before eating; she still put on lipstick before coming downstairs to make breakfast. So they called it keeping house for a reason. Marilyn thought. Sometimes it did run away.

she'd gotten the call and had driven directly to Babies "R" Us, buying everything from a complete wardrobe to a crib to six months' supply of diapers. "Maxed out the Visa," Linda McCullough had said with a laugh. "Mark was still putting the crib together when the social worker pulled up with her. But look at her. Just look at her. Can you believe this?" She had bent over the infant cradled against her, with a look of pure astonishment.

?yilik eden mükafat bekliyorsa, tefecidir.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Attendre est encore une occupation. C'est ne rien attendre qui est terrible.

Come ha fatto a trovarmi? - gli dissi ridendo. - Non è nulla. Ho aspettato. - Tutta la notte. - Tutto l'inverno.

She had wanted to behave like a fully grown woman and it had not come off.

Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

In order to establish a real teacher-student relationship it is necessary for us to give up all our preconceptions regarding that relationship and the condition of opening and surrender. Surrender means opening oneself completely, trying to get beyond fascination and expectation.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

we all tend to see what we are looking for.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

All that caring about what happens next.' He waited. 'Now nothing happens next.

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

Ms. Casey is standing in front of the class explaining how she worked all weekend to get the tests graded so she could hand them back on Monday morning, and you're wondering if you're supposed to be impressed that she did her job.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.