Quotes About Expectation

If we are truly waiting on God, we won't miss anything.

I almost had to wait.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

I cannot drug my life with the present moment; The present moment may rape--but all in vain-- The future, for the future remains a virgin Who must be tried again.

Hij likte me frivooltje van een mosseltje, intens ervan genietend, dat voelde ik wel. (...) Het raakte binnen in me in alsmaar opgewondener toestand - de toestand is opnieuw gespannen, zegt men dan in de nieuwsberichten - en ik voelde dat iets gebeuren zou (...)

The future is still unspoiled.

There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.

Attracting Love Love comes when we least expect it, when we are not looking for it. Hunting for love never brings the right partner. It only creates longing and unhappiness. Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.

They lead "still" lives, waiting. - Myrna Landers Waiting for what? - Armand Gamache Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. - Myrna

We see it when bullies are in charge. It becomes part of the culture of an institution, a family, an ethnic group, a country. It becomes not just acceptable, but expected. Applauded even.

Hope itself wasn't necessarily kind. Or a good thing.

she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it.

his cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.

You can't get milk from a hardware store. So stop asking for something that can't be given. And look for what is offered. She saw the fork of food, and the thin lips that rarely smiled at them, blowing on it.

You can't get milk from a hardware store. So stop asking for something that can't be given. And look for what is offered.

Here it is then, the dark thing, the dark thing you have waited for so long. And after all, it is nothing new.

And she'd exceeded every expectation, by qualifying for the Sûreté. In one generation her family had gone from victims of the authorities in Czechoslovakia, to the ones who made the rules. They'd moved from one end of the gun to the other.

Armand pushed his omelette away after one bite. It was moist, with aged Comté cheese and tarragon. Just as he remembered it. Just as he liked it. But not today.

waited on my call, nor does any

They lead "still" lives, waiting.' 'Waiting for what?' 'Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.

Gracie might, or might not, be a dog. The smart money was now on guinea pig, with hedgehog a close second.

It was one of life's little mysteries that this woman she had absolutely no respect for, could lay her flat. She thought she'd been ready for it. She'd even dared to harbour a hope that maybe this time would be different. But of course it wasn't.

The population had a right to expect that people with a gun and a badge would also have self-control.