Quotes About Expectation

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock it never is at home.

This? I thought, after a twenty-year civil war: This? Armageddon I expected; but Armani I did not.

What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending

I haven't done anything--yet.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around.

What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Truth had hanged the way the landscape had changed to accommodate progress, altered by each generation to its purpose. He had learned from the talk of old men that there was no such thing as truth, truth was always shaded by perception and expectation.

When the people whose claims we are considering are told to apply themselves to these tasks they become irritated and feel almost insulted. They

Dost thou fill thy chest with dirt, and expect to find gold when thou openest it?

Story tells us of a nobleman of our nation, in King Henry VIII.'s reign, to whom a pardon was sent a few hours before he should have been beheaded, which, being not at all expected by him, did so transport him that he died for joy.

And where hope is raised, the Christian cannot but take sweet satisfaction from the expectation thereof. The poor ploughman that is a saint, and plows in hope of reaping salvation, would be as well contented with his place and work as the bravest courtier is with his.

First, faith closeth with the promise as a true and faithful word, then hope lifts up the soul to wait for the performance of it.

We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

Treat people magnanimously if you can," he said, "It'll make you feel better. Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed. Do the decent thing if you can, but for its own sake.

Whom do I love? I love someone because I expect something from that person. I expect him to behave in a way that I like. The moment he starts to behave in a different way, all my love is gone. Then do I really love this person or myself?

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.