Quotes About Expectation

Get in here and make me some dinner—now, woman. News flash, Michael, you're supposed to be evil, not redneck!

That smile tells me he's not done. That we're not done.

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

It wasn't about the fantasy. That was now replaced with hope and belief that it could happen, for real.

It's always the ones who believe who are hurt the most when things go wrong.

It's always the ones who believe who are hurt the most when things go wrong. She

I want that. The getting younger with each step, because of anticipation, in hope and belief.

There's no way for me to know she'll find me here. I didn't call. I didn't text. I left it up to old connection, that old friendship sense.

Their first date was at the symphony. How mean can a guy be who likes Mozart? I hope, at least.

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy, either.

Ya sabes como es esa sensación que uno siente al esperar a alguien, y quiero decir, en verdad esperar a alguien.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor with a spattering sound.

He held the sandwich in his right hand, a cigarette in his left, alternating between the two. When witness to this, I always hoped that in error he would take a bite of the cigarette or attempt to smoke the sandwich, but he never became confused.

People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.

What we fear too much we often bring to pass.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Mother seemed to wish that she'd never had a childhood, perhaps because all delight was fleeting and because the promise of one day was not fulfilled even just until the next.

Don't be expectin' milk and honey, and maybe then you'll get yourself some.

An abundance of pessimists might bend reality to Armageddon just by expecting

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.