Quotes About Expectation

Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on.

I tell you it's insidious being an ersatz Duchess, people rushing to give you what you want before you've had time to want it. If I kept this up for more than a month it would ruin my moral fiber.

I went down to Chemical—and after asking to see everything but my teeth, they cashed {my cheque}. Nothing infuriates me like those friendly, folksy bank ads in magazines and on TV. Every bank I ever walked into was about as folksy as a cobra.

door, but never in her wildest dreams had she expected Fru Karlsson to order one of everything they had. At least that's what she seemed to have done. The cakes and pastries were set out on

Clouds rise up to heaven: The image of WAITING. Thus the superior man eats and drinks, is joyous and of good cheer.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Thanatos, der alles wusste, stieg in Erwartung des Kommenden die Niederenslinger Hügel hinauf zum Plateau, suchte einen Baumstrunk, setzte sich und wartete. Er trug einen schwarzen Aktenkoffer bei sich, der alle Geduld der Welt enthielt.

How can something be so wonderful and yet so disappointing at the same time?

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?" "I had hopes, I had hopes." "Hopes? Hopes of what?" "I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.

In a state of war, one is always waiting. We have become waiting-machines. For the moment it is food we are waiting for. Then it will be the post. But each in its turn. When we have done with dinner we will think about the letters. After that, we shall set ourselves to wait for something else.

We deceive ourselves a good deal about love. It is almost never what they say it is.

You can predict an eclipse a thousand years hence, but you cannot predict what will happen when you pull a bulldog's tail!

On tâche à courir plus vite que le temps, quand il est si simple d'attendre qu'il vienne de lui-même se mettre à vos pieds, comme un chien, avec votre destin tout cuit dans sa bonne gueule.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot, If that wherein my hopes delight, be best or not

Sometimes the greatest kindness we could receive would be to have someone expect more from us than we do, because they see more clearly our divine heritage.

La vie à deux consiste presque essentiellement à attendre l'autre.

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.