Quotes About Expectation

Oh, if only I knew back when it begin what was going to happen…perhaps the pressure of knowing would have been too much to bear.

Your dreams will come true, but only when they're supposed to and not a moment before.

This is exciting. A woman recently had a baby from an embryo that had been frozen for seven years. She said, "I had no idea if I was having a little boy, a little girl–or fish sticks."

They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan's family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.

And if no one asked for her hand, how then could Carr give it?

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

Um dos traços evidentes de nossos tempos é que o sentido do presente é procurado muito mais no futuro do que no passado.

Espera-se que o terapeuta ou analista empurre o paciente na direção de seu desejo. Aliás, é por isso que uma terapia leva tempo, porque, antes de empurrar, é preciso que esse desejo consiga se manifestar

Um dos sentidos evidentes de nossos tempos é que o sentido do presente é procurado muito mais no futuro do que no passado.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

El absurdo es que no parezca un absurdo -dijo sibilinamente Oliveira-. El absurdo es que salgas por la mañana a la puerta y encuentres la botella de leche en el umbral y te quedes tan tranquilo porque ayer te pasó lo mismo y mañana te volverá a pasar. Es ese estancamiento, ese así sea, esa sospechosa carencia de excepciones. Yo no sé, che, habría que intentar otro camino.

So it's not what you thought it was going to be—that doesn't mean it can't still be something amazing.

There are few things more frustrating than being forced to sit through a bad film with someone who thinks it's a masterpiece.

The trouble with success is that it's never enough. You always want more.

Be prepared for a journey, but don't expect a destination.

Be prepared fpr a journey, but don't expect a destination.

If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

Dios responderá algunas oraciones de la manera en que lo esperas. No obstante, en otras ocasiones no será así. Ese es el misterio de la oración. No podemos reducir la oración a una fórmula.

In the great balancing equations of Dog's mind, there are two things he cannot resist - ham, and me holding open a vehicle door. I'm pretty sure that ham is first and the only reason me holding open a vehicle door is in the running is because it might mean that we are going somewhere to get ham.

In my limited experience, women dreaded male statements that ended with "then you've got another think coming." It usually meant there was a lot more coming, but in this case there wasn't.