Quotes About Expectation

I still hope for the best, even though the best so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

When I look back, "It is easy, when I was young, to believe that what I desired was no less than what I deserved, and to assume that if you want something badly enough, it was your given right to have it.

Answer me this.... Does the one who is always waiting suffer more than the one who's never waited for anyone?

When I look back, "It was easy when I was young, to believe that what I desired was no less than what I deserved, and to assume that if you want something badly enough, it was your given right to have it.

If a person expects a person to be an angel in their life, they must create heaven for them. Angels don't live in hell.

I hope he picked a winner

Today is what you have, and tomorrow may not turn out the way you expect it to.

I have to believe something incredible is waiting with somebody who understands me.

I will wait. "If you wait to figure out it'll never happen.

I will wait. "If you'll wait to figure out it'll never happen.

We don't really want to get what we think that we want. I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire.

Jack Malloy was able to love the human race because he expected ahead-of-time to be let down by his friends and hurt by his enemies and betrayed by his leaders. He saw these things as natural reactions to be anticipated, instead of perfidies to be decried.

sigh of leaves and waves, waiting, awaiting the fullness of their times

BaÅŸar?lar?n?n soÄŸuk çemberinin ortas?nda oturup ona parlak bir yaÅŸam saÄŸlayacak cesur bir talip bekledi. Ama tan??t??? erkekler s?radand?lar ve onlara cesaret vermeyip romantik arzular?n? gizlice lokum yiyerek bast?rmaya çal??t?.

The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.

Gerty Mc Dowell'a kur yap?p kalbini kazanacak olan adam?n tam bir erkek olmas? gerekiyordu. Ama bekliyordu, hâlâ birinin ona teklif etmesini bekliyordu, ayr?ca bu y?l art?k y?ld? ve yak?nda bitecekti. S.339

Beware of what you wish for in youth because you will get it in middle life.

Waiting rooms. Ye go into this room where ye wait. Hoping's the same. One of these days the cunts'll build entire fucking buildings just for that. Official hoping rooms, where ye just go in and hope for whatever the fuck ye feel like hoping for.

I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, No, it's just an ironic pregnancy.

Tell them I'm coming, mr. Jones.

Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them-- unless, of course, I address myself as an other.

Where was the catch? 'Cause I knew one was coming.

Fang: When do I get out of here? Max: They say a week. Fang: So, like, tomorrow? Max: That's what I'm thinking.

I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.