Quotes About Expectation

Dave and Kathy went shopping to buy all the stuff that their baby would need. It was like a great big celebration going on to welcome the new member of the family. Time

There's always a calm before the storm...

Other people will always appear to move with dedication and consequence. How else does a person behave when people are watching?

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

over the horizon.

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over.

didn't think it was super. Winnie

I think I'm afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens. —Charlie Brown

What are you doing here?" I ask, stepping out of the car. "Waiting for you." He closes the car door behind me. "I called you earlier and your mom said you'd be home around nine. You're two minutes early." "Should I go away and come back?" "What do you think?" he asks, encircling my waist with his arms.

Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might.

That even when what people were waiting for was the worst new of their life or the best, even when the waiting was heavy with implication and consequence, waiting people still transformed into cranky toddlers, impatient and frowning and red-faced infuriated with vending machines that dispensed the wrong thing, and kids who did not use their inside voice.

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail

I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer

Then it's not the past I yearn for, but the idea of a time when everything important has not yet happened: — Lawrence Raab, from section 5 of "The Uses of Nostalgia," What We Don't Know About Each Other (Penguin, 1993)

Connie, have you been trying to call me?" No Archie. "Well, my phone has not been ringing all day, and I thought it might have been you.

Breathless the earth seems waiting some wild blow, Dreaded, but far too close to ward or shun.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.