Quotes About Expectation

Hope is always about the future. And it isn't always good news. Sometimes, hope can imprison us with belief or expectation that something will happen in the future to change our lives. Similarly hopelessness isn't always about despair. Hopelessness can bring us right into this very moment and answer all of life's most difficult questions. Who am I? Where am I? What does this mean? And what now?

Like all buses, it comes when it comes. You can wait with frustations, angers or feeling of victimhoods or you can wait with patience and relaxation, either way, it won't make the bus come any way faster

December 5 is what I saw as we walked together on October 5, let's go, let's go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far

Y comencé a hacer planes, pensando que llegaríamos tan lejos.

She was excited by the idea of having something dedicated to her, but I don't think she really liked it. Just goes to show that you can't have everything you want in one woman.One more argument for polygamy.

And I waited, as a blasphemer waits for lightning. I looked away.

Anna Bergman in Private Confessions], unlike her mother... has never been able to tame her fantasies of what life ought to be like, to adapt the role she yearns to enact to the play she finds herself in.

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.

If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So

Sometimes the butterflies were there just to make you queasy; sometimes the butterflies were there to let you know that something good was on its way

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

The year 2008 was the moment when the bell rang. That year, U.S. natural gas output went up instead of down, as had been the general expectation. That abruptly caught the attention of the majors, the big international companies.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Loving someone and falling in love are two different things. When you fall in love, you expect love back & your heart breaks but when you are loving someone you are so busy that you have no time to expect anything back.

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit – it may become either an orange or a lemon."

I may look like a potato now, but one day I'll turn into fries and you'll want me then.

Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

"If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change."

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."