Quotes About Expectation

She brings seven pairs of underwear, two pairs of shoes. She brings an anxious disposition.

You wanted something to happen, right? " Rick says. "For all of this to be leading up to something? Closure," Rick says, pointing at the manila envelope. "That is definitely one way to have closure." "I didn't say I wanted closure. Drama. I said I wanted drama." "What do you think drama is, Murray?" "How about something more open-ended?" "Oh sure, that can be arranged, too," Rick says. "But even open-ended stories have to end at some point, right? Open endings, after all, are still endings.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

While the backdrop remained unpainted anything could happen, and let it, Grace thought. Let someone else paint it in, perhaps another Brake Merrowby coming up the long drive in a bright red car, another man who could both entrance and infuriate her, someone else to love her for what she was rather than what she did.

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

Love requires a more unlimited Obedience from its Slaves, than any other Monarch can expect from his Subjects; an Obedience which is circumscrib'd by no Laws whatever, and dependent upon nothing but itself.

You are no longer a young girl who believes that she should be out of life what is best. Just nothing you do not. A couple of times you get lucky and drop you from the sky this or that, accidentally and undeservedly, but most of the things you have to fight it alone and you can enjoy if you get half of what you wanted.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there.

ONE of the most distinctive features of the human mind is to forecast better things. "We look before and after And pine for what is not.

there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing.

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.

Why the world won't accommodate my every whim, I just don't know.

I knew you'd come, once you saw the site," Libby said. "I knew you'd find me.

waiting for a friend to get off

anything could happen and that everything would. But that doesn't mean I wasn't shocked when it did.

Letting go of expectation when it comes to one's children is close to impossible. The entire premise of our love for them has to do with creating, fostering, and nurturing people who will outlive us. To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

my disbelief as well as my certainty—was the unification of the ancient and the future parts of me. It was everything I intended and yet still I was surprised by what I got.

What was the point of having a dishwasher if you had to wash the stupid dishes first? When she grew up, she'd have a robot to do all the housework for her.

Hope springs eternal in the town of dreams...and so does despair and humiliation.

The worst wait in life is waiting for someone to text back. Riya

if a majority of us see and expect netas to be service providers instead of rulers, it will trigger a huge behavioural change in the political class.