Quotes About Expectation

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

For weeks I've been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday and he still forgot to bring me something.

All alone by the telephone.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

But whatever you hope, you will find out that you can't bargain with your life on your own terms. It is always going to be proving itself worse or better than you hoped.

I know by now that the love of ghosts is not expectant, and I am coming to that. This Virgie of mine, this new found Virge, is the last care of my life, and I know the ignorance I must cherish him in. I must care for him as I care for a wildflower or a singing bird, no terms, no expectation, as finally I care for Port William and the ones who have been here with me. I want to leave here openhanded, with only the ancient blessing, 'Good-bye. My love to you all.

It just seemed that, as we waited together for the coming of this life, it had become wrong to sit apart.

The War was just as busily studying the purpose of The Economy, which is to cause people to purchase what they do not need or do not want, and to receive patiently what they did not expect.

You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

I would be back in my garden all the time, working or just looking….I knew better than to expect a visible difference in an hour, but I looked anyhow.

In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And if you honor the other party to the conversation, if you honor the otherness of the other party, you understand that you must not expect always to receive a reply that you foresee or a reply that you will like.

knowing how she was wrung all her life between her cherished resentments and her fierce affections. A peculiar sorrow hovered about her, and not only for the inevitable losses and griefs of her years; it came also from her settled conviction of the tendency of things to be unsatisfactory, to fail to live up to expectation, to fall short.

expectations.

From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer for Breaking Dawn.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. ••• I

she shivered and flushed. When she was pregnant