Quotes About Expectation

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

She had to admit, pregnancy had been an experience. Not that anything bad had happened, it was more that she felt constantly in awe of what was taking place in her body, and she couldn't believe that soon she would have a son to call her own.

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

Prince Charming was requesting my presence tonight.

His blue-black hair fell over his face when he moved, like tiny arrows pointing to pronounced cheeckbones. "Starting to think you were going to bail on me." "Didn't know you were expecting me," she said in what she hoped was a casual voice. He gets sexier every day. "Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

Can I join you at lunch?" She paused. "You have every other day." He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day." "What makes you think I won't resent it today?" "Hope. It's what I live on...

I think you just want to be in love because you think it's supposed to happen now. But love doesn't happen on schedule. It sneaks up when you least expect it. You can't plug it in into that little day planner of yours. You can't make it happen.

What if I want more?" "I'm sorry, but there isn't more to have

Even worse than not being noticed, he decided, was being noticed and found wanting.

I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes.

Perhaps we should see what comes next.

Those who have been persuaded to think well of my design, will require that it should fix our language, and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without opposition. With this consequence I will confess that I flattered myself for a while; but now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify.

Princess Joan liked watching The People. Indeed, she liked The People, provided they gave her the respect she was owed.

Todos tenemos una vida que quién sabe cómo será, pero cuanta más vida haya por delante más esperanza.

no statistical prediction can or will ever be 100 percent accurate—because human beings are not and never will be statistics.

What's astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.

Aquele momento confirmava: o melhor da vida é o que não há-de vir.

Esperar não é a mesma coisa que ficar à espera.

Saudade é esperar que a farinha se refaça em grão.

A vida é um por enquanto que há-de vir.

Olho a estrada de areia que se abre à nossa frente, com mais curva que distância e penso: a vida é a espera do que pode ser vivido." (Diário do caçador [6] - O Reencontro)