Quotes About Expectation

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.

N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez ps decu

We write that bad ending before we even get there." "Isn't that what makes us human? The ability to look at the present and predict what's likely to happen?" "But we're really not all that good at it, are we?

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

She'd given it two good years. The problem was, Don had only given it one.

Imperial children are necessary, but they're not exactly wanted. In

Wie tussen de mensen heeft geleefd, en nog altijd uitkijkt naar een onverwachte gebeurtenis, die heeft niets begrepen en zal nooit iets begrijpen. Hij is rijp voor de Stad: alles moet hem worden aangeboden, alle posten en alle eerbetoon - en dat verklaart de duurzaamheid van die ondermaanse hel.

Once a boy shows you the stars, they're a hard act to follow.

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed, but she sometimes is.

Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.

Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.

I was first drawn to you thinking you were going to teach me something more than that. I needed that which I sensed in you and which you have always denied.

É possível também que já então meu tema de vida fosse a irrazoável esperança, e que eu já tivesse iniciado a minha grande obstinação: eu daria tudo que era meu por nada, mas queria que tudo me fosse dado por nada.

Nothing happened if she kept waiting for what was going to happen .

She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself.

Hope is a child not yet born, only promised, and that bruises.

Arriving back home, I didn't start to read it. I pretended I didn't have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again, walked around the house, put it off even more by going to eat a piece of bread with butter, pretended I didn't know where I had left it, found it, opened it for a few instants. I created the most false sense for that covert thing that was joy. Joy would always be covert for me.

Pois a actualidade não tem esperança, e a actualidade não tem futuro: o futuro será exactamente de novo uma actualidade.

Aunque nunca más fuera a sentir la grave y suave fuerza de existir y amar, como ahora, de ahí en adelante ya sabía por qué cosa esperar, esperar la vida entera como si fuera necesario...

Realidad? Te espero. Es allí donde voy.