Quotes About Expectation

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. - Ka'a Ort'o, Gnomic Utterances, Civ

When might I expect you then? Whenever is least convenient for you, the demon replied.

I asked you for Hobbits on a grail quest, and not one Hobbit have I seen!

Few things are begun with as much hope as a garden, and it can disappoint in direct proportion to one's anticipation.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.

I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be.

We've been expecting you.

When she felt the baby turn in her underwater world she remembered Quietly. The future was unfathomable, but with every heartbeat she carried her daughter towards it.

just want to take some photographs. I don't think the weather is on my side, though." "You'll get to see it properly within the hour. This mist won't last long.

She stares up- and downriver in search of something. Something she longs for. Something she has been expecting every day, and every day it doesn't come, and still she waits and still she looks and still she yearns, but the hope dwindles with every day that passes. Now she waits hopelessly.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

We are an impatient culture and an impatient electorate.

Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead.

There is the story of the English vicar who was asked whether he expected to go to heaven, and what he thought he would find there. Well, I suppose I believe in eternal bliss, if it comes to that, he replied, but I wish you wouldn't bring up such depressing subjects.

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.

But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine.

Things you let yourself imagine happening, never do happen.

What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to.

Then I told myself that as I never gave the Church a thought when I was feeling happy, I could hardly expect it to do anything for me when I wasn't. You can't get insurance money without paying in premiums.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.