Quotes About Expectation

We were happy when he first came. We first thought he came from the Light; but he comes like the dusk of the evening now, not like the dawn of the morning. He comes like a day that has passed, and night enters our future with him… Plains Chieftain, c. 1870

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all.

We gaan zien. Wij gaan zien. Toch.

As circunstâncias têm menos poder de nos fazer felizes ou infelizes do que se acredita; mas a antecipação das circunstâncias futuras na fantasia têm um poder imenso

Xervish Flydd, to Nish. 'You took your bloody time, Nish. I expected you nine years ago.

He keeps us waiting rather than wishing for him. I feel it a matter of perfect indifference whether he arrives at any moment or not at all." — Lady Harriet Cavendish of George Beau Brummell

As long as you're living in the meantime, you'll never really know what you're missing. And by doing so, your life is just a rehearsal for a performance that never comes.

The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Rain wasn't quite falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

I went to the Oxford Bar first off, but they said they hardly see you these days. I'm at the age where nothing should surprise me, but

The rain had not started falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

Karma will do that to you, man—give you a little sliver of hope and then slam the door in your motherfucking face.

Doesn't mean you'll actually get that hearing, but it's your first eligible date. Mine was December 5, 2013.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.

People generally deal with situations by means of assumptions.

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.