Quotes About Expectation

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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Not at home to callers Says the naked tree – Jacket due in April. Wishing you good day.

If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.

Virgo: "You missed a spot."

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed...

Here's to the Clock! Whose hands, we pray heaven, When we come home at three, Have stopped at eleven!

But we are never prepared for what we expect...

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out.

Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

July is a blind date with summer.

Maðurinn finnur það sem hann leitar að, og sá sem trúir á draug finnur draug.

I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.

We live in a fast-food culture, in which we are led to believe that we need to have everything now; it is a culture that causes people to lose a sense of a future worth waiting for.

Unni will come, if not today, then tomorrow. Today is nearly gone, but other todays stir fecund in the word tomorrow, many other todays when this one has lapsed from existence. And because I think of Unni, invoking his name in this for ever recurrent today, already he is here for me." - The Mountain is Young

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

My new appointment was supposed to be