Quotes About Expectation

Armand Gamache had expected to need a few moments to adjust to the dark interior. He hadn't expected that he'd need to adjust to the light.

I had to rush back into my bedroom because Mum suddenly came out of the room to the kitchen and shouted up to me: "Georgia, I know you are at the top of the stairs. Come down – you have a visitor and your father wants to speak to you." My father? Wants to speak to me? I have a visitor? It's like Blithering Heights. If Masimo is dressed in tight breeches and wearing a cravat I will truly go mad.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients--or their lack--and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

Something you always look for, but never know when it's going to happen

Patience is the art of hoping.

Miksi muka on hienostunutta olla ikävystynyt? Tyylikkäillä matkailijoilla ja teatterissa kävijöillä on usein sama tuskastunut, ikävystymisestä kielivä ilme. Miksei voisi sanoa: "Ai matka? Miten jännittävää! Suurenmoinen näytelmä!

Youth is always impatient, even though, ironically, youth alone has time for patience.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

the fact that a real apocalypse would be such a vindication, if you'd spent all this dough getting ready for it,

as if foreknowledge of an event could somehow buffer you from its reverbrations.

But if a woman will not share her body with a man, how can she expect him to share her infatuation with a few grans of sand and a lot of sea and sky?

But if a woman will not share her body with a man, how can she expect him to share her infatuation with a few grains of sand and a lot of sea and sky?

Sometimes you can dread something so much that when it actually happens, you can't help but laugh because you realize that you totally blew it out of proportion, and it's not nearly as bad as you thought it would be.

Depreciation of money can benefit debtors only when it is unforeseen. If inflationary measures and a reduction of the value of money are expected, then those who lend money will demand higher interest in order to compensate their probable loss of capital, and those who seek loans will be prepared to pay the higher interest because they have a prospect of gaining on capital account.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

You can plan for something your whole life, and still get taken by surprise

Jika kau memilih untuk mencari sesuatu, maka sebaiknya kau siap menghadapi apa pun yang kau temukan. Karena mungkin itu bukan seperti yang kau harapkan.

I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.

As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on.