Quotes About Expectation

The other great error in advertising is to expect more out of advertising than there is in it.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

In de tijd dat ik veronderstelde een revolutionair te zijn liet ik mijn baard groeien. De revolutie kwam echter niet. Ik had te weinig idealen.

geef me nu eindelijk wat ik altijd al had

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

Man hat es leichter, wenn man selber weg muß, die Angst wegträgt, und das Glück da läßt, und vom anderen erwartet wird. Zu Hause sitzen und warten dehnt die Zeit zum Zerreißen und treibt die Angst auf die Spitze.

Tudo o que está para vir, já aí está.

The Plane!, The Plane!

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon.

Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a rambling-rose design. Instead I'm on the rue des Cordeliers in pursuit of a baguette, with a three-inch blade for comfort.

This is the best he can hope for, unless. There is always unless.

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.

I think it's just people. They always hope there may be something better.

The princess] looks out and sees the humble musician with his lute. But unless the musician turns out to be a prince in disguise, this story cannot end well.

I never know why Hope is accounted a virtue," Camille said. "It seems so selfserving.

You could not know, sir, what Katherine was asking.' That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

Be reasonable, my lord. Once you.ve done it, you'll want to do it all the time. For about three years. That's the way it goes. And your father has other work in mind for you.