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Quotes About Expectation

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.
~ Cormac McCarthy
My daddy once told me that some of the most miserable people he ever knew were the ones that finally got what they'd always wanted.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There is no description of a fool that you fail to satisfy.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back" (210)
~ Cormac McCarthy
People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People are always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The simplest undertaking is predicated upon a future that has no warrant.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You aint ready for that.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didnt. I dont blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Imi aduc aminte cind s-a pensionat tata si mama i-a spus: "Am zis ca la bine si la rau, dar n-am zis nimic despre prinz.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Folk gjorde sig jämt redo för morgondagen. Sådant trodde jag inte på. Morgondagen gjorde sig inte redo för dem. Den visste inte ens att de fanns.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He waited for many years to hear from God what it was that was expected of him. What he was to do with this life. But God never said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that it was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?
~ Cormac McCarthy
You go back home and everthing you wished was different is still the same and everthing you wished was the same is different.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What are you going to do? I dont know. Wait. For what? I dont know. When will you know? When it gets here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I've heard of some that was supposed to be better and I'm sure there were some better. I just never did see any of em.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You dont always get what you want. But then you dont always want what you get so it's probably pretty much of a wash.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Man dont always catch what he fishes for.
~ Cormac McCarthy