Quotes About Expectation

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The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night,— Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days!

Then I remember it's January, a month when only the potatoes are optimistic about warmer weather.

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.

Johanna was looking at her expectantly, and suddenly Ravna realized that the girl thought librarians must be experts at everything.

Un pájaro de papel en el pecho dice que el tiempo de los besos no ha llegado

The real thing is always going on somewhere else. When you're young you think it will come later. Later on you think it was earlier. When you are here, you think it is there--in India, in America, on Popocatepetl or somewhere. But when you get there, you find that life has doubled back and is quietly waiting here, here in the very place you ran away from.

One imagines everything higher than it is, till one sees it. You come on your travels from your little provincial town with false ideas about life. Grand Hotel, you think. Most expensive hotel, you think. God knows what marvels you expect from a hotel like this. You'll soon know all about it. The whole hotel is only a rotten pub. It is exactly the same with the whole of life. The whole of life is a rotten pub, Herr Kringelein. You arrive, stay for a while and go on again.

Oh Marlboro Man, where art thou? Your comeback won't be a minute too soon!

Prinn lived by one governing thought: Whenever life seems to be going surprisingly well, just wait ten seconds and everything will go back to shit like normal.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Some people want everything for nothing.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.

You will never get the same from people as you expect, Better ask to god he will give you more than that, Because in his world ego and attitude doesn't mean anything

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

I always think that the project I'm working on will be the best.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.