Quotes About Expectation

It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.

Don't say your day is good till evening, for you don't know what may happen before it.

He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough.

He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time.

Many people sow rice in their fields and expect to harvest maize.

Most of us can do more than we think but usually do less than we think we have.

No matter if you wait for tomorrow or not, it will come tomorrow.

Putting wings on your body can't make you an eagle.

The death of a parent is expected, the death of a child is unexpected, and I expect everyone will die.

There are people who plant thorns in their garden expecting to gather roses.

Time is nothing but just a well without water in the desert when you are thirsty and hope that it must be somewhere.

You can't live the future until it becomes the present.

You will never get disappointed if you do not desire what you do not deserve.

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.

Ao chegar aqui eu esperava arranjar apreciadores, mas até agora não me aproximei um só centímetro do coração das pessoas.

I shall have to produce an enormous number of things against next year - when the World's Fair will be held - seeing that my friends will not fail to have many interesting things on hand by then. Not that I myself or any of the painters I hold regular or special intercourse with are going to exhibit along with the others, but it is to be expected that there will be a free exhibition besides the official one. Now, for

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand.

Car horns honk way down on the street. Human life: honking, honking wanting everything to go our way.

This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.

Porn is somehow supposed to be real--something we never expect of film, by its very nature a technique of illusion. We expect porn to show us exactly what we dread about it: the truth of our desire.

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

Be unattached, expect nothing in return, attachment comes only where we expect a return, love shines in freedom alone.