Quotes About Expectation

Critics are eager to discover a new voice. For some reason they're just as eager to be disappointed by a second novel.

Those who give too much are always expected to give more, and blamed when they reach the point of refusal.

They believed that the British Empire was the greatest force for good the world had ever known. They expected gratitude from the Egyptians and were pained to find themselves barely tolerated.

If I gave you my life, you would drop it wouldnt you?

I plan to approach my future as one of great promise.

If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, said Kadife. Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.

Mevlut cinselliÄŸin ancak beklemekle, beklemekle gerçekleÅŸecek bir mucize olduÄŸunu on beÅŸ ya??nda böyle anlad?

Possono succedere tante cose nella vita, eppure si perde tempo ad aspettare.

Him…. If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.

Daha veciz konuÅŸmay? seven bir dükkan?n sahibi, müÅŸterilerinin bir elbiseyi deÄŸil, asl?nda bir hayali sat?n ald?klar?n? aç?klam??. O elbiseyi giyen ötekiler gibi olabilme hayaliymiÅŸ as?l sat?n almak istedikleri.

a mitad de la cena, de repente me dijo que intuía que un día sería muy feliz. Y aquellas palabras me hicieron sentir con mayor claridad que se me había cerrado la posibilidad de ser feliz en la vida...

Mnogo je toga u životu, vjerojatno je tako, ali ti, eto, ?ekaš. Ovako to meni izgleda: stvari koje bih želio da se dogode potrebno je dugo ?ekati, a kad se i dogode, ne dogode se onako kako sam ih ja zamišljao i o?ekivao; kao da su se sve urotile protiv mene: dolaze polako, polako, a dok se sna?eš i pogledaš, ve? su i prošle.

would very much like to see you. We await your company at supper on May 19.

Why should we expect a city to cure us of our spiritual pains? Perhaps because we cannot help loving our city like a family. But we still have to decide which part of the city we love and invent the reasons why.

If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.

Nunca recibí respuesta.

I wait and wait, as though something is going to happen, as though someone has promised to come, as though the world could show me something new...

El propietario de una tienda, al que le gustaba hablar de manera más lacónica, le explicó que el cliente no compra en realidad una prenda de vestir, sino una fantasía. Que lo que de veras quería comprar era el sueño de poder ser como los otros que vestían aquella ropa.

WHATEVER THE SOUL IS TAUGHT to expect, that it will build. Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere vaporings of the imagination or idle dreams. They are prophecies, predictions, couriers, forerunners of things which can become realities. They are indicators of our possibilities. They measure the height of our aim, the range of our efficiency.

You must have birds in your heart, Madam, before you can find them in the bushes, said John Burroughs, the great naturalist, to a woman who complained that no birds ever came to her orchard, while he counted a score or more there, even while she uttered her plaint.

Most of us do not prepare for a large career because we do not expect enough of ourselves.

We don't necessarily get what we work for; it is what we expect that comes to us.

The very habit of expecting that the future is full of good things for you, that you are going to be prosperous and happy, that you are going to have a fine family, a beautiful home, and are going to stand for something, is the best kind of capital with which to start life.