Quotes About Expectation

The whole thing had seemed to start out well and then devolve into a disaster almost before he noticed. Not that that's unusual. But

I have never held coincidence in must esteem,' said Grannie Jane. 'It always disappoints as a plot device in a novel and even more so in real life.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

would have made for a growing excitement.

The Jews supposed that the Messiah would be the sovereign of the world. In reality, He was to become the Savior of the world.

The Law has a promise but it is a conditional promise, depending upon whether people fulfill the Law.

Cary and Lilac both shared some sort of optimistic new-age philosophy, the general gist of which was that things usually turned out all right if you just expected them to. Their problems therefore settled, they carried on placing daisies in each other's hair.

Essere desiderati non è semplice. Non bisogna farsi illusioni: non siamo mai noi a essere desiderati, ma quello che l'altro immagina di noi e, spesso, quello che potrà servirgli a giustificare le proprie scelte esistenziali.

As my mum used to say, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

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be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. Never was a truer word spoken.

There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.

I like playing my guitar when I expect nothing from it.

We've been trained by Industrial Age marketers to believe anything good is already on the shelf.

On the one hand, he knows, before anything appears, what he will produce. On the other hand, the fruit that has not yet appeared knows nothing and does nothing.

My motto: "Expect the worst and hope for the best.

It's like buying a lottery ticket: you might win, and until they have the drawing, you haven't lost. I

You said you'd not get weird after sex.

The next challenge was how to give it to her. Should he just put it in the spare bedroom, take her by the hand, and when she spotted the cradle in the middle of the room say, "What do you think about a baby?" Did that sound ridiculous? Did he care?

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.