Quotes About Expectation

Attendre, c'était attendre l'occasion. Et l'occasion ne venait qu'à l'instant dérobé à l'attente, l'instant où il n'est plus question d'attendre.

Attendre, se rendre attentif à ce qui fait de l'attente un acte neutre, enroulé sur soi, serré en cercles dont le plus intérieur et le plus extérieur coïncident, attention distraite en attente et jusqu'à l'inattendu. Attente, attente qui est le refus de rien attendre, calme étendue déroulée par les pas.

BekleyiÅŸ, art?k bekleyecek hiçbir ÅŸey olmad???nda, bekleyiÅŸin sonu bile beklenmediÄŸinde baÅŸlar. BekleyiÅŸ ne beklediÄŸini bilmez ve onu y?kar. BekleyiÅŸ hiçbir ÅŸey beklemez.

Waiting is the awaiting of presence that is not given in waiting, presence that is led, however, to the simple play of presence by wait­ing that withdraws from presence everything that is present it.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

The Substitution Principle tells us that wherever a value of one type is expected, one may provide a value of any subtype of that type:

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

A Russian, the poet David Samoilov, said later, "We were all expecting war. But we were not expecting that war.

Para nosotros, un acto de economía "capitalista" significa un acto que descansa en la expectativa de una ganancia debida al juego de recíprocas probabilidades de cambio; es decir, en probabilidades (formalmente) pacíficas de lucro.

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

I guess I had all kinds of ideas about him, but they weren't really him, they were just what I made him in my head. The reality was not as attractive as the ideal.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Once upon a time, when she still believed that somewhere, out there, was a man who would love her. Once upon a time, when young girl's dreams came true and happily ever after was just within reach.

You must have faith in the duke, and in true love." She groaned. "Easy for you to say! You are not in a wedding dress laced so tightly as to make it impossible to breathe, uncertain if your groom will arrive before suffocating to death. Though perhaps that would be preferable to life after being jilted at the altar.

Od Bosanca se može svemu nadati. Godinama živi kao pametan ?ovjek, a onda sve u?ini da bi dokazao da je budala.

Ali mi se, ipak, nadamo boljemu, uvijek, više vjerujemo svojoj želji nego svome strahu, i obi?no s pravom

Ne?e da prizna koliko se nadala. A ne zna ?ak ni ?emu.

There ain't no coupe de Ville hidin' in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

The everything of womanhood carries no reward at all. And yet, everything still has to get done. So you keep working and you stop waiting, but the hope is still there, tucked in a corner. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going—the hope that that someone—that one person—will applaud.

But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting. The.Time.Simply.Passed.

The hours passed as they did the rest of the year, until whatever it was we were waiting for commenced.