Quotes About Expectation

False hope is better than no hope at all.

Et un jour on se retrouve à jouer seul. L'autre retire ses billes, reprend ses cartes, et vous restez là, comme un con, devant une partie inachevée... A attendre. Parce que vous ne pouvez faire que ça, attendre. Cesser d'attendre, ça voudrait dire que c'est fini.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

I am ashamed to tell you how much I should like to hear from you, because you will suspect that I only want a supplement to the Times, or a later edition of the Echo.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.

The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking

En realidad, ningún domingo puede terminar bien, como todo el mundo sabe.

She'll never last to dinner. The little human growing inside her belly has seized control of her body and mind in ways Daisy did not anticipate.

This was supposed to be mine. Labden guaranteed me the COO position for the new resort when it comes online. I've put my heart and sweat into this company for years. TerraWest has traded on my name, my Olympic fame, my gold medals, for God's sake. I'm married to the founder's daughter.

Dain wasn't certain what exactly was wrong with her, but he had no doubt that something was. He was Lord Beelzebub, wasn't he? She was supposed to faint, or recoil in horrified revulsion at the very least. Yet she had gazed at him as bold as brass, and it had seemed for a moment as though the creature were actually flirting with him.

I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it." "Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me.

Mama, you know, lost all her enthusiasm for mothering by Baby Number Seven. What a pity she did not lose her enthusiasm for Papa at the same time. But then, I doubt she was ever altogether clear on where babies come from. She was very much astonished each time she found herself enceinte. Papa was naughty not to explain her.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

over the next four and a half months. By fall he would

We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.