Quotes About Expectation

Why didn't he show up?

Four minutes," Walter said, "seems like four hours.

Large natures have usually large desires, and only the small are satisfied with the small.

It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.

I laugh a lot lately. People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

easier to assume that people have it out for you than to be disappointed when they don't come through.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting

Thinking about all of this, I feel a sudden rush of anticipation, an abstract yearning. Unfamiliar as it is, I do remember it. I experienced this feeling as a little girl the night before Christmas, and later when I was applying to college, and even later when I moved to New York. It's a longing for things to come, possibilities unfolding before me, the charged expectation of change.

My hands are clammy. It's a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we're walking into. The last time I felt this way I was in the waiting rooms at Ellis Island.

The truth is, even if you make a pact with yourself that you're not looking and don't care, a piece of you is always waiting for love to happen.

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she's come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

It's a longing for things to come, possibilities unfolding before me, the charged expectation of change.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Children with borderline mothers adjust to the chaos of their lives by learning to expect the unexpected. They associate love with fear and kindness with danger.

An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.

We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in order to live their own lives. (It's why you still see half-read copies of Atlas Shrugged on the night tables of otherwise intelligent gay men.)

when they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses

The success of Flyaway Holidays was propelled by his uncompromising belief in giving people what they wanted when they travelled abroad, viz: exactly the same things they got at home, but with better weather.

She wishes them not luck or money; they will have both, as much as they want, or is necessary. Instead she wishes them fearlessness in all things: in love, yes, but also in work, in expectation, in the leap from the high rocks, in looking back, and in forgetting.

tendency to seize upon the most optimistic timetable for completing a project and ignore any information that might make you revise that prediction. According

He [Mosaddegh] was part of a generation of Iranian men who were inspired by Europe but who expected their wives to remain Iranian. (p37)

I have always been sure That when [the Day of Judgement] comes it will come in autumn. Heaven, I am quite sure, wouldn't disappoint The bulbs.