Quotes About Expectation

There's hope around the corner.

I'm going to buy a box tomorrow.

I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

The Congress ran off and left everything just as I expected they would do and now they are trying to blame me because they did nothing. I just don't believe people can be fooled that easily.

Nothing at all, but I'm not sure I'm ready for it. I'd hate to get used to something I'm not ready for.

In Athol Fugard's play, The Island, an African eats an orange whole; at the play's opening night in London, the audience sat coolly through the nude scenes on stage, but there were gasps of horror at the sight of a man enjoying a whole unpeeled orange.

expenditure on food does not increase in the same ratio as income, but becomes relatively lower. People learn to expect that food will be cheap; money is for spending on other things.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

Was tomorrow going to see the end of her long-guarded virginity?

Waiting is one of the great arts.

She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.

Always your mind goes to the worst, Mam, and the worst very seldom happens.

It is only, she thought, that I thought you brought my bear, and life lit up for a moment. And now it is returned to its usual dimness, which truly I had thought was bright enough for me.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Maybe she's looking for us," Maureen would say hopefully. "Maybe!" nodded Paul.

The rifle in this story is a rifle full of wishes. Maybe all rifles seem to be that, at least for a moment, when they're new, before any finger has touched any trigger. Maybe all rifles seem as though they might grant a person the only thing they've ever wanted.

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

No hay que limitarse a dar; también es preciso exigir y aprender a hacerlo. Quiero decir que cuando el uno permite al otro satisfacer determinadas exigencias, se ennoblecen los dos. De lo contrario, sólo se consigue mantener tiranos y mártires.

In her confusion she tried to look scornful when Flutter Mildweather said, "One almost always gets what one wishes—one just doesn't know when or how—and that's what makes wishing so frightening. One must wish for what one is able to accept, somehow or other. That's very important to bear in mind. . . .

Svolazza Beltempo : – Quasi sempre ciò che si desidera si avvera, solo che non si sa come né quando, ed è questo che rende i desideri così ingannevoli. Bisognerebbe desiderare solo ciò che si è pronti ad affrontare in qualsiasi momento: è importante rifletterci sopra.

nor can we expect exactly similar results from children whose heredity and experience make them at once more sensitive, more active, and less amenable to

He, Sam McGowan, having been raised in a house where women were expected to achieve, had had any potential sexist inclination beaten out of him by his oldest sister long ago.