Quotes About Expectation

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

Closing her eyes, she began to let herself dream. Not sleep dreaming, but dreaming of how her life might be. It was a thing she didn't often do. In her experience, good things came with great difficulty and were too easily snatched away. She'd longo ago learned to accept what she had at any given moment and try to be happy with only that. She could think about the furniture, plan even, but not expect. It was the expectation that was the trap.

I have a good feeling about this. Somehow, it's all going to turn out for the best." "I wish I did," Cork said. "Maybe that's the difference between the law and religion. I hope for the best, you're prepared for the worst.

Eddie now?" Larson asked. "Maybe she waited until

You are not prepared.

I never expected to lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player makes an out seventy percent of the time he goes to bat.

You can cheat with a picture. You can fall in love with an image of someone, with a memory or an idea of her. For that matter, the matter is generally easier to love than the actual person, since the image will never change, never grow old, never argue or disappoint you.

I expect to lose. I always do. And life seems eager to exceed my expectations.

We're coming! She felt like shouting it to the sky. We're on our way!

There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit

The postman said there were two ways of meeting experience—you could expect pain or you could expect happiness. "Now, I'm going to look on the bright side until I know to the contrary," he said. "I'm going to look on the bright side, and keep saying everything's going to come out the way I want it to.

With what a leaden and retarding weight Does expectation load the wing of time!

They looked as if they were trying to threaten their own destination into appearing.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.

The performing musician was now expected to write and create for two very different spaces: the live venue, and the device that could play a recording or receive a transmission. Socially and acoustically, these spaces were worlds apart. But the compositions were expected to be the same!

If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.