Quotes About Expectation

She had got herself dressed before I had asked her to!

I have asked too much, too much.

PRINCIPLE 7 Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today.

You may be very sure that if your sincere intent is to glorify God and bless others in your efforts, and you are not motivated by unloving attitudes, you will see the hand of God move with you as you expectantly do your work. Your part is simply to expect it, watch for it, give thanks as you see it, and, on the basis of your experience, encourage others to do the same.

Section 2: Preview of Things to Come

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.

This is the future I would be giving my child?

I can't wait for this to come out in October!

Geneva, Switzerland..i thought it was only two hours

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

It was the great Russian author Chekhov who wrote, "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

Now," she said. "Look at the tree again and create this expectation: 'I can hit the tree with ease.'" So I said it again---"I can hit the tree with ease." I felt a line of energy stretching from me to the tree and I knew the stone would follow that line to it's target....I took a breath and threw the stone. I saw it fly, attracted to the tree like a magnet. The stone hit the tree dead center.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

Count no man happy until his death, for no one knows what the gods have in store for him.

I was always waiting for you, she sent.

Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E.T. to save their asses since before they covered those asses with bearskins and came out of the cave," she said.

The mistake is waiting and waiting for the payoff like it's a reward you've got coming

If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming charming enough to captive him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it.

Ahora miraba el mundo como algo remoto, con lo que yo no tenía nada que ver y de lo que nada esperaba, y de hecho nada deseaba: en pocas palabras, no tenía nada que ver con ese mundo, y difícilmente algún día tendría que ver algo con él; por tanto, pensé que así debía de verse después de la muerte.

Nitekim z?dd?yla gözümüze sokulmadan içinde bulunduÄŸumuz gerçek durumu asla göremiyor, hep fazlas?n? istemekten sahip olduÄŸumuzun deÄŸerini bilmeyi beceremiyoruz.

L'attesa di un male è un supplizio assai più grave del male stesso, soprattutto se non abbiamo la possibilità di scuoterci di dosso quell'ansia tormentosa.

Optimism, like hope, means having a strong expectation that, in general, things will turn out all right in life, despite setbacks and frustrations.