Quotes About Expectation

How innocent we'd been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true.

Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.

his love was totally different from every other love in my life. Unlike them, it didn't expect me to behave in a certain way. It didn't change into displeasure or anger or even hatred if I didn't comply. It healed me.

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

How entangled love is with expectation, that poison vine! The stronger the expectation, the more our anger towards the beloved if he doesn't fulfil it—and the less our control over ourselves.

I saw that this was how we would live out the next decades, dragging ourselves from one expected action to the next, hoping by meticulous duty to bring each other some small measure of happiness. But the comfort that duty offers is lukewarm at best. Happiness, like a mischievous bird that hops from branch to branch, would continue to elude us.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

Death is always the expectation here and when my throat was cut it was no different.

I worry that we all just sat around, after a while, trying to enjoy a ride that was never meant to be fun.

he loved who he thought she was.

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

It was hard not to be full of hope

Just beyond your sight, life might be moving in ways that were moments away from being revealed to you.

Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

auma change in Liz, denoting that she is the equivalent of pregnant ("eggnant"?) because of the kindling of the bronze egg by Zanna.

Oh Dick, you eroticise what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too.

Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a girl's name," writes Dodie Bellamy).

you eroticize what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too.

That's how it was supposed to be, and you really prefer things to be the way they are supposed to be. Funny, when you find things to be not to your liking you try to force them to be otherwise.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

I have such a lowered bar of expectation, and they managed to crawl underneath it. ~ Jon Stewart

Every couple of years or so, when Daniel Clowes releases a new book, one can almost sense the rectal contraction across the collective seat of our humble profession.

They waited nearly two hours, but it was becoming increasingly clear that, for whatever reason, he wasn't going to show.