Quotes About Expectation

impatient. I had to do things the Army's way: hurry up and wait.

When the waiter came I ordered a glass of Chianti, and Bill kicked me under the table and shook his head "no." I stuck to my guns and drank my wine, but I do know there was a little tension in Bill's face after that at the table every time I lifted my glass. Bill and Sam stuck to ginger ale. Bill later told me that before the dinner he had been recommending me to Jimmy and he wanted me to make a good impression. During

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

It is a hopeless endeavour to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

I dare say our is likely to be a rather long engagement, but our motto is "Wait and hope!" We always say that. "Wait and hope!" we always say.

And a cool four thousand, Pip!" I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.

Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to

My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood in the way, and I joined in them myself. Umble we are, umble we have been, umble we shall ever be,' said Mrs. Heep.

And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.

I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.

He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.

What a troublesome world this is, when one has the most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible.

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How weak am I, that I could shed tears at this reception! I who have never experienced anything else; who have never expected anything else.

There is nothing I would not have given you to have had you deserve my old opinion of you; nothing!

In London, he had expected neither to walk on pavements of gold, nor to lie on beds of roses; if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself.

No había esperado poder alcanzar la riqueza en la capital, pues, de haberse hecho tales ilusiones no habría llegado a prosperar. Esperaba tener que trabajar, encontró trabajo y lo llevaba a cabo. En eso consistía su prosperidad. Desde los tiempos en que era siempre verano en el Edén, hasta los actuales en que casi puede decirse que el invierno es perpetuo