Quotes About Expectation

baby-sitting their roast in his oven? Who knew what he would be doing for them next?

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Bad news is still bad news - even if you're expecting it.

Sometimes all the energy you put into something you think matters doesn't matter one bit.

I am going down first. Of course you're going down first, you're the guy.

She'd been prepared for him to say he was too old, she must put away that sweet but impractical idea, they would forget all about it and go back to being good friends. She had almost hoped he would say that; it would forestall the complication and entanglement, yet leave her with a grief to harbor, sad but tender, grief like a secret, soothing companion. But this! There was nothing soothing about this.

I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!

We can't live in an alternate reality and expect what's right in front of us to get better.

Good things are coming. I know it. Today's disappointment is making room for tomorrow's appointment. Let's look for those good things with great intentionality.

Dear Lord, I want to wait in calm and patient expectation today. Please take my exhaustion and turn it into expectation; take my feelings of hopelessness and give me real hope. I want to stop resisting Your truths and start applying them. I will do all that I can today, and I will wait with anticipation for all that You will do through me. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Instead of looking at life with the hope of receiving love, I started expecting rejection.

simple but very profound truth, "How can you let God down when you weren't ever holding Him up?

Even if life handed me love, I suspiciously waited for it to be snatched away.

I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.

Everyday starts as a repetition of the previous day & ends so with the hope that tomorrow will be no different.

En ese estado febril, en el que otro, quizás, habría escrito versos, miraba atentamente los ojos de las mujeres con las que me cruzaba, esperando como respuesta esa misma mirada amplia y terrible. Nunca me acercaba a las mujeres que me contestaban con una sonrisa, pues sabía que a una mirada como la mía sólo podía contestar con una sonrisa una prostituta o una virgen.

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ...

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

Expect the worst and hope for the best.

No one comes from Rome or Samarkand to see brown flowers.

ESTAÇÃO Esperar ou vir esperar querer ou vir querer-te vou perdendo a noção desta subtileza. Aqui chegado até eu venho ver se me apareço e o fato com que virei preocupa-me, pois chove miudinho Muita vez vim esperar-te e não houve chegada De outras, esperei-me eu e não apareci embora bem procurado entre os mais que passavam. Se algum de nós vier hoje é já bastante como comboio e como subtileza Que dê o nome e espere. Talvez apareça

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.