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Quotes About Expectation

Noticis ir tas, ka es gaidu ciemi?us, un es nemaz negaidu ciemi?us, un nekas nav noticis, bet es l?dzu j?s aizbraukt
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whether he is better or worse off there where he awoke after his death, disappointed, or found there what he expected we shall all soon learn.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, that in this world there is neither honour nor justice. In this world one has to be cunning and cruel.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I was afraid of life and strove against it, yet I still hoped for something from it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All these traces of his life seemed to clutch him, and to say to him: "No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, but you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Although that patience did come out, Pierre did not join the army, but remained in deserted Moscow ever in the same state of agitation, irresolution, and alarm, yet at the same time joyfully expecting something terrible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Hayat?n?n bütün izleri sanki ona sar?lm?? ?öyle diyordu: "Hay?r, bizi b?rak?p gitmeyeceksin, ba?ka birisi olmayacaks?n, nas?lsan öyle kalacaks?n: Ku?kular?nla, kendinden sonsuz ho?nutsuzlu?unla, sonuçsuz kalan kendini düzeltme deneyimlerinle, ya?ad???n dü?ü?lerle ve senin için olanaks?z, sana nasip olmayacak sonsuz bir mutluluk beklentisiyle.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Three days after
~ Leo Tolstoy
He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one has to be cunning and cruel.
~ Leo Tolstoy
That's how it is, dear fellow. Fate looks for a head. But we are always judging, 'that's not well—that's not right!' Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you've drawn it out it's empty! That's how it is.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'd never been around a homicide detective. But I grew up reading crime novels and had an idea what to expect. It turned out those books hadn't made me as smart as I thought.
~ Leo W. Banks
Fiatal létemre úgy véltem, minden dallamnak ismétlÅ'désesnek kell lennie – mivel rövid zenei tapasztalatom még csak arra szoktatta hallásomat, hogy ezt várja.
~ Leonard Bernstein
I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm just waiting for the miracle to come
~ Leonard Cohen
Dearest Shell, If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . .I'm afraid to live anywhere but in expectation.
~ Leonard Cohen
But I know she's coming and I know she will look That's the longing and this is the book
~ Leonard Cohen
Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away
~ Leonard Cohen
We all understand that genius doesn't guarantee success, but it's seductive to assume that success must come from genius.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
The man who waits for reality to write the truth inside his soul waits in vain.
~ Leonard Peikoff
Touch me, he thought, and all he could think was: love me, and all he could think was: why I never prepare for this moment better? Look how I had all these years of life to ready myself for your arrival, and what I did with them? Wasted them on other women, and other ideas, and now you here, I not ready. He wanted to sit in front of her and have her tell him everything she'd ever experienced in all of her life.
~ Leone Ross
I do not want to lie so rudely and ungracefully. I will lie to you elsewhere, when you least expect it, and that will be far more interesting for both of us.
~ Leonid Andreyev