Quotes About Expectation

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Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank

I've been waiting a long time for last year. But I guess it's just not coming again.

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

Se puede decir que un hotel es bueno cuando encargas algo al servicio de habitaciones y el empleado no te mira en ningún momento al entrar en la estancia.

The mortal human only anticipates as a lower lifeform, the form to come....

My horse … is pregnant. … What do you say to that? ... I say pretty soon you'll have two horses

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

To ask the question and wait for the answer is to know that there will be no answer.

Nothing keeps its promise.

L'umano desiderio di un principio, una parte di mezzo e una fine - e una fine adeguata, come grandezza, a quel principio e a quella parte di mezzo - si realizzava così completamente soltanto nella materia insegnata da Coleman all'Athena College. Ma al di fuori della tragedia classica del quinto secolo a.C. aspettarsi un compimento, per non dire una giusta e perfetta conclusione, significa, per un adulto, cullarsi in una stolta illusione.

Ma appena desideri appassionatamente una cosa sulla quale non puoi esercitare alcun controllo, sei alla vigilia di una grossa delusione: ti stai preparando a farti mettere in ginocchio.

I have found in my life that I often phone one person when I expect myself, or others expect me, to be phoning someone else; it is what the telephone company calls displacement.

You would have thought, listening to my bowdlerized version of what was a tepid enough little life history, that rather than having received a warm and gracious letter from the famous writer inviting me to come and spend a pleasant evening in his house, I had made this journey to plead a matter of utmost personal urgency before the most stringent of inquisitors, and that if I made one wrong move, something of immeasurable value to me would be lost forever.

In risposta alla prospettiva di una gratificazione e un accudimento straordinari, la mia insaziabile parte infantile non farà che accrescere la soglia di soddisfazione fino a conseguire di nuovo la sua omeostasi di grave insoddisfazione.

I guess… it was just a shocking event. We're not used to someone like him being President." Here, the student reveals an availability bias in which we expect future outcomes to look like what has gone before.

It was all supposed to be reassuring-but it wasn't. Not really.

I thought for a moment Dad was finally going to say something that would make a difference. But maybe not, because he just let Weird change the subject without even noticing how unfinished I still felt.

Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.

As the conditions of our world worsen, Jesus said we shouldn't hang our heads in depression or shake our heads in confusion. We should lift up our heads in expectation, for our redemption draws near (Luke 21:28). After

As the conditions of our world worsen, Jesus said we shouldn't hang our heads in depression or shake our heads in confusion. We should lift up our heads in expectation, for our redemption draws near (Luke 21:28). After Paul told the Thessalonians about the sudden return of Christ for His people, he said, "Comfort one another with these words" (1 Thessalonians 4:18).

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

We do not get what we hope for, we get what you expect.