Quotes About Expectation

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself

Duty is what one expects from others.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?