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Quotes About Expectation

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.
~ Marian Engel
A kétségbeesés fenekére dönt, hogy képem kitörl?dött lelkedb?l, s bizony, neked is szégyened. Igazán a legkevesebb, amit elvárhatok t?led, hogy legalább azt viseld el, ha felpanaszolom szenvedéseimet. Éreztem én, el?re éreztem, mennyi gyötrelem vár rám, mikor láttam, hogy elhatároztad: elhagysz engem.
~ Unknown
Each moment is nightfall not spacious enough to contain all hope that there will be morning.
~ Unknown
Life got ahead of me. I thought I would hurry up walking through this desert and I would await its arrival!
~ Unknown
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Injudicious Gardening Fear is Hope
~ Marianne Moore
Robert—who knew quite well that he had the empathic sensitivity of a whelk—did not expect to have any such difficulties himself.
~ Marie Brennan
them already packed and waiting.
~ Unknown
Ich habe auf Dich gewartet, sagte die Frau. Ich habe Dich nicht gekannt, aber man kann auch auf Jemanden warten, den man noch nie gesehen hat.
~ Unknown
f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
~ Seneca
The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.
~ Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.
~ Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Don't count your check-ins before they cash.
~ Vanna Bonta
You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.
~ Jen Lancaster
I gave up drinking coffee for you. I swapped pizza for produce, and this is what I get in return?
~ Unknown
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
~ Lewis Carroll
An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.
~ Oscar Wilde
The first weeks in the US, I was asking, 'Where is my food?'
~ Liang Chow
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?
~ Seth Godin
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
~ Hugh Casson
The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.
~ Jeff Smith
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
~ Walter Savage Landor