Quotes About Expectation

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

What is taken from you before you get it? Your photograph.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

But somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

All promise outruns the performance.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

Between to-day and to-morrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do— I had to let something go.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

The ship's officers were in a substantially higher bracket. First Officer Warms earned $180 a month; Captain Wilmott, the princely sum of $300 a month. Chief Engineer Eban Abbott's paycheck was $220 a month. For that salary Abbott was expected to keep the engines running smoothly, and play his part in entertaining the passengers, particularly the women on board.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!

Your perfume. . .' His tone held a faint hint of surprise. 'I'd somehow expected you to wear something more. . .sultry. I don't recognize this fragrance.' 'It's new," Courtenay said tersely. 'It's called Get Lost. You've probably never encountered it before.

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

I think you could have a really good night tonight," she said huskily. Jade's eyes danced over her cheap outfit, taking in her costume jewelry and her ruby-red lipstick. "Yeah?" he said. "Thanks for the premonition.

What had he hoped for back then? What kind of future had he dreamed of when he'd stared up at the lightning-fork crack in the ceiling?

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

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At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

Por el mero hecho de existir la gente se cree con derecho a ser feliz.