Quotes About Expectation

Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid.

Had Queen Coral prepared a throne for her missing daughter, waiting all these years for her to come fill it? She

Turtle yelling "AAAH!" and leaping backward as the stick he'd poked her with burst into flames. Peril stretched, yawning. "Well, what did you think was going to happen?

something to read! At last!).

That's true." Clay's wings drooped. "It might not be what you're hoping for, Tsunami. Like finding out my mother sold me for a cow." "Hey." said Glory. "It was at least two cows.

So let me get this straight," she said. "You're telling me nothing about why you're here, but you expect me to bring you into our kingdom and buy you a drink. NightWings really do think highly of themselves, don't they?" "What if I bought you that drink?" he offered.

sure she's nearly ready," said Queen Coral. "Years. Lots more years,

That went well. He probably should have predicted that Winter would be a stubborn donkey for no reason.

She was surprised at how warm and happy she felt to be back with her friends again. This was how she'd expected to feel among the SeaWings — like she was coming home. So why don't I?

the first time in forever.

That's life you know? It is all one big waiting room. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. And then, like you, sometimes it's great.

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

The operation, performed on an immensely obese, timid patient, was far more intricate than they had expected; yet finally it was done, and not only was it successful in itself, but there was a real likelihood that the man might live.

If you shoot enough, you will eventually have a "boom" of some kind, regardless the firearm you're using. Wait for it, expect it, but do everything you can to keep it from happening.

One of these days the future will be here, and you won't be ready for it.

how could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.

Want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to soil it.

A restaurant can afford to serve the occasional burnt dinner. But in technology, you cook one thing and that's what everyone eats. So any difference between what people want and what you deliver is multiplied. You please or annoy customers wholesale. The closer you can get to what they want, the more wealth you generate.

is waiting, the audience is secretly aware that

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

I heard them complain sometimes, but it was the ineffectual bitching of people who didn't expect anything about their situation to ever change, and who wouldn't know what to do with themselves if it did.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

she had this look of calmness, of concentration, the look, I think, of all women who for the first time are with child and find that the world around them has become relatively unimportant.

But it isn't the best we should remember,' she said, and shocked herself by speaking aloud, and clutched the folds and mother-of-pearl buttons in that habitual gesture. We must remember the worst because the worst is the lives we lead, the best is only our history, and between our history and our lives there is this vast dark plain where the rapt and patient shepherds drive their invisible flocks in expectation of God's forgiveness. *