Quotes About Expectation

From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.

Comme Margaret Atwood, je pense que vouloir rencontrer un écrivain parce qu'on aime son livre, c'est comme vouloir rencontrer un canard parce qu'on aime le foie gras.

Et attendre un « je t'aime » pendant trois semaines, c'est pas vraiment humain lorsqu'on a vingt ans.

Et puis, vous savez très bien que le succès repose sur un malentendu.

I always try and give the players the security of knowing what they'll encounter. This increases the possibility of doing things well.

It can't be that late already. It can't be. She's had all day, all night to say good-bye to him and she hasn't even begun.

With 'Good Will Hunting ' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

No one can be free who believes freedom is coming.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

I am always, endlessly, hoping to be surprised." "Then I wish it for you.

You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

Te espero por siempre

What do those kids expect to do with that biscuit eater?" Ames laughed. ''You know how boys are. I'll bet this is the first time in history a colored boy and a white boy ever had a joint entry in a field trial. They get riled if anybody calls him a biscuit eater.

impatiently and looked around the room. It wasn't anything a millionaire's wife would get excited about. Tony, my

It took me longer than I thought and it seemed to me that the calf was beginning to lose patience with me because when its head was forced out by the cow's contractions we were eye to eye and I fancied the little creature was giving me a disgusted "For heaven's sake get on with it" look.

Though in her late thirties, she had no fears of spinsterhood because she had been assiduously courted for fifteen years by Charlie Hudson from the Darrowby fish shop and though Charlie was not a tempestuous suitor there was nothing flighty about him and he was confidently expected to pop the question over the next ten years or so. Mr.

Las cosas suelen resultar mejor de lo que uno espera.

Those were dreadful words. "Not many minutes" was a common phrase in Yorkshire and could mean anything up to two hours.

When you grow older you miss that eagerness; life may be happy, you may have health and wealth and love and success, but the odds are that you never look forward as you once did to a single golden day. You never count the hours to it, you never see some moment ahead beckoning like a goddess across a fourth dimension.

I shall be very deeply interested—in due course.

Don't go back to less just because you are too impatient to wait for better.