Quotes About Expectation

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

You did really great up there," I tell her, because I don't know how to say what I really want to: that the people you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

I don't know why it's called getting lost. Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

i don't know. i don't care. all i know is when you pay for something that's supposed to give you a cup of coffee, you deserve to get your fucking cup of coffee.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

Peter took a shuddering breath. He wondered what his fish had thought, expecting the cool blue of the sea, only to wind up swimming in shit.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize that you've gotten everything you wished for. And right on its heels is the understanding that this means you have so much more to lose.

For every person you make happy, there's another one you disappoint.

A mother has nine months to get used to sharing the space where her heart is; for a father it comes on sudden, like a storm that changes the landscape forever.

The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.

When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be… not everything you wish they won't become.

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.

You don't ask for all that you get. You don't get all that you ask for. That doesn't mean you don't work the hardest for what you want the most.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.