Quotes About Expectation

Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize you've gotten everything you wished for. And right on its heels is the understanding that this means you have so much more to lose.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less.

Someone who was happy would have little need to hope for change. But, conversely, an optimistic person was that way because he wanted to believe in something better than his reality. He started wondering if there were exceptions to the rule: if happy people might be hopeful, if the unhappy might have given up any anticipation that things might get better.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

I didn't know why it's called getting lost. even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turns to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected

Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the daughter I already have.

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?

You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.

realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

In a minute - Sometime soon - Maybe next time - Make it June Until later Doesnt always come

They don't want to wait their turn. They don't want to work their way up the ladder. They want what they want now

When you expect something, you're sure to be disappointed. I learned that a long time ago.

I woke up with an unfamiliar taste in my mouth, part sweet part sour, it took me days to realize this was simply hope.

People you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable when we least expect it.

the people you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

What will Dad say?" he whispered. His mother could not possibly have heard him at such a distance, but she seemed to understand his question. "I imagine," she said, stepping into a neat square of the brilliant afternoon, "he'll say, 'Hello, Max.

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months.

Why do you always get the tired ones when you're ready and the randy ones when you're tired?

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy; her days were no longer passed in weariness and darkness, one like the other without pleasure or change, for now she had always something to which she could look forward.

I am well aware of what I expected, what I expect, of my daughter, and of the selfishness and pathos of that expectation. Much is demanded of the dilettante's offspring. She will do what I could not, and be a great scholar, if I have any say in the matter, and I have.