Quotes About Expectation

yesterday, n. You called to ask me when I was coming home, and when I reminded you that I wasn't coming home, you sounded so disappointed that I decided to come home.

He thought it was love. When, in fact, it was like three hundred ninety-fifth in line for love.

But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that all.' 'You really think love needs to have a future?' 'Absolutely.

You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period.

She is always there for him, and he must like that. His friends like her, and he must like that, too. But that's not the same as love. She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for. They don't have silences together; they have noise. -A

There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain. "It's okay," I tell her. "It's okay to be happy." The tears come to her eyes.

What took you so long? Elijah doesn't know what to say. Shrugs were invented to answer such questions, so that's just what Elijah does.

Tomorrow', she says, a little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

Tomorrow. A little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

Noah se ha convertido en mi «cuánto falta para».

doubt lingers around anticipation like bees hover around flowers. [...] the best antidote for doubt is presence.

If we could feel the things we fear ahead of time, we would be traumatized. So instead we venture out thinking we know how things will feel, but knowing nothing of how things will really feel.

The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.

How was her crumbcake? oh.. from the store... .......

We all thought Tony would be a force to be reckoned with when he grew up and we're still waiting.

The trouble with instant gratification is, it takes too long.

Another way is to surrender the feelings we have about what we want from the other person, and let go of the pressures we are putting on them in the form of expectation and desire.

That which we want, desire, and insist upon from another person is felt by them as pressure. They will, therefore, unconsciously resist.

May I bring you a drink to go with those warm nuts, Mr. Sedaris? this woman looking after me asked - this as the people in coach were still boarding. The looks they gave me as they passed were the looks I give when the door of a limousine opens. You always expect to see a movie star, or, at the very least, some better dressed than you, but time and time again it's just a sloppy nobody. Thus the look, which translates to, Fuck you, Sloppy Nobody, for making me turn my head.

Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit in your hair.

Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad fact that this person actually thinks he bringing some joy into your life. Somewhere he had a mother who sifted through a shoe box of mimeographed playbills, pouring herself another drink and wondering when her son would come to his senses and swallow some drain cleaner.

The iPhone 2 led to the 3, but I didn't get the 4 or 5 because I'm holding out for the 7, which, I've heard on good authority, can also be used as a Taser. This will mean I'll have just one less thing to carry around.