Quotes About Expectation

Durante años me dije: "Por la mañana". Lo que, claro está, nunca ocurrió.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise.

[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn

For the next several minutes nothing much happened, biscuit wise.

Then something incredible happened. The boy picked me up and carried me right into the house! I'd never even imagined that might be possible. Did it mean that I wouldn't be living in a wire cage with a concrete floor? That I could stay where the people stayed? I was going to like it here just fine.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

The timid and the fainthearted, and people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.

She asked a vendor if it would not be a good idea to inform the customer that his order will come late. No, he would get mad. Well, what happens when you deliver order late? He gets mad. Then why didn't you tell him in advance, so that he could prepare? He would get mad twice.

You can expect what you inspect.

Whenever one is imagining a bright future, the next disaster is just around the corner.

Horror lets us know that how we expected the world to act has been indefinitely cancelled.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

I know that some of us, and for some reason I am one of them, get to reach out and touch our heart's desire, like a child who gets to pet the nose of an old horse, soft as satin, safe as a grandfather's lap. And I know, too, that when most people reach for that heart's desire, it appears not as a horse but as a tiger, and they are rewarded with snarls, frustration, and disillusionment.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!