Quotes About Expectation

But I am too young yet to think of peace. It is not peace that I want. Peace is for forty and fifty; I am waiting for my Experience. I am awaiting the coming of the Devil.

The only time a women wishes she was a year older is when she's expecting a baby.

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I can only offer this advice: if you expect sunny paths all the time and no storms you will know disillusionment, but if you are prepared for rough paths and storms you will cope and will know the pleasure of achievement

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Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many have tried, because of him? Not only those I have seen; there will be men to come. Those who look in mankind only for their own littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

A young man sat down beside him on the divan and, without any kind of preliminary, said, 'Is it a queer book?' 'No,' said Laurie. 'Oh,' said the young man, on a note of utter deflation. He got up and went away.

Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

Solo hay un sobresalto peor que el totalmente inesperado, el esperado para el cual uno se ha negado a prepararse.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne

True optimism, as Agatha Swanburne defined it, is the habit of expecting happy endings in a way that keeps one cheerfully working to make them come true.

When is Simawoo coming?

How much longer, Lumawoo?

Lumawoo? Are we there yet?

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.