Quotes About Expectation

It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things.

Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room.

I was in my favorite seat in the library, but it wasn't helping me like the book any better. It was a book people kept putting in my hands and telling me I was going to love, the way the doctor tells you the needle won't hurt a bit. The book began the way it always began before I gave up on it: with a man carrying around a drawing or a snake that had just eaten, and asking people what they thought of it. I thought it was no way to start up a conversation.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

Crying is the opposite of scolding, because adults are hardly ever allowed to do it.

It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean that you would be a midget if you were bald.

Very often you expect one thing from looking at the outside of it, but when you open it, there's something else entirely.

Waiting is one of life's hardships

Happiness is an acquired tase, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

I'm distraught, and I'm pregnant.

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

By its very nature every architecture is a statement about what we expect to remain constant and what we admit may vary.

Perhaps all fear is worse than reality, just as all hope is better than fulfilment.

Seeing Blackpool on a dull winter's day rather spoilt my image of what seaside places were like. (From LONE WOLF, p.60)

The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain

I suppose the dinner will be delicious? Grand old English cooking?" "It's ever so nice tonight. We've just got a new cook." They went through to the dining-room, where they ate the usual tinned soup, tasteless plaice from the icebox in composite batter, a shaving of cold meat with hot gravy over it, tinned peas and processed cheese. A wine list was produced, and Carolus ordered a Burgundy which arrived lukewarm, and they ended with bad coffee of the same temperature.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Contemplava-o por todo o tempo que não vira, impaciente como sempre de verificar a imagem que dele fizera durante a ausência. E, como sempre, a imaginação superava a realidade.

Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better.

In other words, the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe – as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.