Quotes About Expectation

I can't tell you what is right," she said, "but I can tell you what is expected by others, and by this child. It doesn't matter what she calls you. Mom or Tante or Aud, if legally you are her mother, somewhere inside she will expect you to behave as one. It doesn't matter if this is likely, or even possible, it is what she will expect.

She waited patiently, which made him nervous. Royalty were rarely patient unless they were toying with you.

Hild watched them and the other not-yet-girdled girls-Cille and Leofe, who were already meant for each other, and half a dozen younger-and wondered when her mother might choose her gemæcce and who it might be.

When I saw her come in that night with you, I said to myself, Now there's a handful, because I thought she'd be snooty, you see. It was the way she carried her head.

I ached for them. Most of them would not be able to cling to their bubble world; one day someone, something would thrust it. I wished it could be different.

Nothing is until it is and until then everything is possible.

always expect the worst because in the end you wont be disappointed...

Das Individuum, das eine authentische Berufung hat, ist reaktionär, welcher Art die Überzeugungen auch seien, die es hegt. Demokrat ist, wer erwartet, daß die Außenwelt ihm Ziele setzt.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

What—what gold-thing did you buy her?" "A goldfish," Matt says. I groan, "She wanted jewelry, Matt. Like a ring." Matt winces. Then he shrugs. "Well, she didn't say that." I sigh. "She meant it." He shrugs. "She didn't say it." "Matt!" I groan. He tries to seem innocent. He says, "She just said buy her something gold.

For example, in the airline business people talk about the 'olive factor' – if you forget to put the olive in the martini, the customer thinks you will forget to put the wheels down when you land the plane, and this is not regarded as a good idea.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

La confianza refleja la contingencia. La esperanza elimina la contingencia.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: "This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

My heart is beating as though it were waiting for something.

They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Don't expect the LOVE hidden in a LOFT to be soft like a LOAF.

Every man first wish is if all wishes will be reality

Nothing in life unfolds the way you think it will, does it?

Nothing is more suspicious than an unfeeling woman.

All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream. Time can bring down mountains; much more you, who are the timeless source of time. For without memory and expectation there can be no time.

I'll see you again,Whenever spring breaks through again.