Quotes About Expectation

Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you're sure there's some jelly!

I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting...

Duck, big brother! Here comes another day!

You mean you're going to send the same form letter to the Great Pumpkin, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?" "Why not? These guys get so much mail they can't possibly tell the difference... I bet they don't even read the letters themselves! How could they?! The trouble with you, Charlie Brown, is you don't understand how these big organizations work!

There's the house where that little red-haired girl lives... Maybe she'll see me, and come rushing out to thank me for the Christmas card I sent her... Maybe she'll even give me a hug... Maybe Billie Jean King will call me tonight, and invite me out to dinner.

I have a feeling that this is going to be a good year." "What makes you think so?" "I don't know... It just has all the appearances of a good year." "Have you looked in all the corners?

Wouldn't you like just for once to see Charlie Brown hit that ball?" "No... I'm not prepared to have the world come to an end!

A watched supper dish never fills!

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

It's hard to tell everybody to go home if nobody shows up.

Waiting for somebody does that. It turns minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to several lifetimes.

During the months preceding the trial

Hope sees what is not, but yet will be.

Some people believe that Moore's Law will continue to be accurate until about 2015.

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

We left the flat together. I expected– dreaded– Mrs. Hennessy popping out her door and asking who my young man was. "An escaped murderer, Mrs. Hennessy; my father will be horrified." But she didn't come out her door.

The world does not end tonight And the fruit that we will pick tomorrow Await us, weighing the unstripped bough.

Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right

All beauty returns. Wait a little.

the shock which he undoubtedly had felt was the result of not expecting people to murder other people. "Whereas they naturally do," he said to himself. "The normal thing with an unpleasant intrusion is to try and exclude it – human or not. So silly not to be prepared for these things. Some people, as De Quincey said, have a natural aptitude for being murdered. To kill or to be killed as a perfectly reasonable thing . . .

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.

They don't know what they want. They want cool Asian shit.

It's not clear if he can dunk (no one's ever seen him try) but he can definitely grab the rim and that alone is pretty impressive given that he's five eleven and three-quarters. —Which, for the record, is the perfect height for an Asian dude. Tall enough for women to notice (even in heels! even White women!), tall enough to not get ignored by the bartender, but not so tall to get called Yao Ming and considered some kind of Mongolian freak.