Quotes About Expectation

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Unhappiness isn't at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.

Il est probablement impossible, pour des gens ayant vécu et prospéré dans un système social donné, d'imaginer le point de vue de ceux qui, n'ayant jamais rien eu à attendre de ce système, envisagent sa destruction sans frayeur particulière.

Nefericirea noastr? nu atinge apogeul decât atunci când am întrez?rit, îndeajuns de aproape, posibilitatea practic? a fericirii.

Mi cuerpo tensado hasta el delirio Espera como una llamarada Un devenir, un chasquido; Por la noche me entreno para morir.

paprastai nieko rimta ne?vyksta, bet kartais šis tas ir ?vyksta, ir niekada neb?ni tinkamai tam pasireng?s.

Sometimes we have to wait for what we want...Even when we want it very, very much.

He'd take his time. All good things came to those who danced when others least expected to find anything on the head of a pin.

God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think? Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking...

Jerk? Is that the best you've got? How disappointing.

My bisexuality is part of the expression of the flexibility, the changeability of my spirit that feels essential and precious to the center of my life. My bisexuality is a part of my desire to remain an outsider, to be able to "pass" into polarized worlds, to abandon expectation, to honor the mystery of being. My bisexuality is a celebration of the ever-opening flesh, the expansive, fluid mirror of social discourse.

I'm not making any bets on the future.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.

You can't always get what you want.

I became aware of a very peaceful atmosphere, which was not what I expected. I do not claim to be psychic, but I expected to pick up a trace of violence there. There was nothing, just the wind rustling the leaves, desolation and peace. All the action was long past and I could not recover any of it.

Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Tomorrow will be a new day.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.