Quotes About Expectation

My mind is racing to understand. This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you. The hole is so used to being a hole it doesn't know how to close itself.

Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you.

She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.

Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line [...]. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change [...]. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.

As well as being highly critical of everything Nora did, and everything Nora wanted and everything Nora believed, unless it was related to swimming, Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.

Where would you be curious or feel suspense about what's going to happen next? Add pauses in those places to hike up the intensity.

You require me," Atticus said. "To be your magic Negro?

Don't fret, dreamy spinning ones with water falling from your faces. It's us you're waiting for and we're coming.

Silence abides. Nobody talks. Nobody can talk. No man knows his own mind. Fear prises the body and soul apart as neatly as a scallop knife – pop! He is no longer in control of himself. Someone or something else commands him: the war itself. He runs in expectation of death – any second, any second now – and then his soul will hang around like so much chaff until a stiff breeze disperses it and he will return to the source.

Those that will not regard good ministers' preaching cannot expect any benefit by their praying. If you will not hear us when we speak from God to you, God will not hear us when we speak to him for you.

He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear

Those that cast off the duties of religion in their prosperity cannot expect the comforts of it when they come to be in distress. Justly

The times of the gospel are the last times, the gospel revelation is the last we are to expect from God.

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?

As men deal with God's people, let them expect to be themselves dealt with; with the froward he will wrestle.

No good can be expected from a righteous and holy God to sinful creatures, but by his mediation.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

What they don't realize is that sequels are bound to disappoint those who have waited for them.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.

he gave such an impression of buoyancy that I expected him to fly off like a bird.