Quotes About Expectation

You're so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at least.

Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at last.

The feeling was that just when things seemed all right, something bad was about to happen.

It didn't work, said the King. The cloak of invisibility didn't work. Yes, it did, said the Royal Wizard. No, it didn't, said the King. I kept bumping into things, the same as ever. The cloak is supposed to make you invisible, said the Royal Wizard. It is not supposed to keep you from bumping into things. All I know is, I kept bumping into things, said the King.

It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. ~ African Proverb

Love is seldom what you expect

62: For G alone my soul waits in silence. He's running late, but my soul waits in silence. This is me, being silent. Out loud.

Verbally cherishing your wife with compliments, for example, is a good thing for her, good for Sylvie to see, and a good thing for Sylvie to expect from her guy or gal when she grows up.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

to hope was to expect

that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

It taught me to hope, said he, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before. Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.