Quotes About Expectation

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

When I say "hope", I don't mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean it's worth it to keep one's eyes open.

Babies grow in a helix of hope and fear.

Oh,' she burst out. 'I hate this—I hate it.' 'What?' 'Just—this. I feel as though I'm waiting for something and I'm getting scared it might never come.

She has created this moment – no one else – and yet, now it is happening, she finds that it is entirely at odds with what she desires. What she desires is for him to stay at her side, for his hand to remain in hers. For him to be there, in the house, when she brings this baby into the world. For them to be together.

At the bottom of the steps, she turns to Iris, her face full of confusion. 'They said it would be there. They promised they would put it in there for me.

At the bottom of the steps, she turns to Iris, her face full of confusion. 'They said it would be there. They promised they would put it in there for me.' 'I'm sorry,' Iris says, because she doesn't know what else to say. 'I wanted it,' she says. 'I just wanted it. And they promised.

What she has always dreaded is here. It has come.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

The future was on the way, and it was as critical as a mother-in-law, expecting everything to be neat and tidy when it arrived.

Det är ju med de kyrksamma som med trubadurer och diktläsare, man vet aldrig riktigt när de tänker bli pinsamma

Our expectancies are rewarded by substances.

The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.

when you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

Disappointment raced through me. But then, what did I expect? 'Sephy, I could never be bored of you, with you, around you. You're exciting, scintillating, overwhelming company!' Yeah, right! Dream on, Sephy!!

Life was so simple for them. Their biggest worry was what they'd get for their birthdays. Their biggest grumble was the time they had to go to bed. Maybe things would be different for them … Better. Meggie forced herself to believe that things would be better for the children, otherwise what was the point of it all?

What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

y el amor es así, embellece a quien logra amar sin nada esperar a cambio.

a form of waiting that, depending on the circumstances, can resemble fascination, terror, curiosity, or hope.

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive. A book that does not get old is a book from which the reader can always expect something new, in which he can always discover something, a book that thus demonstrates to him that it is forever alive, that their fates are joined and the two of them are united "for life and till death.

Hurt is anger. We feel angry because we believe that someone did not give us our due. We don't feel hurt or slighted because we are not invited to a party but because we expected to be invited; we took it for granted. "It is my due; did I not invite her to my party?

when one expects pure and unmixed suffering, the smallest [10] joy becomes an unhoped-for surprise.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.