Quotes About Expectation

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

Car j'ai vécu de vous attendre, Et mon coeur n'était que vos pas.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

I can't predict the future.

If the expected does not occur—in event, reward, or punishment—the work may seem lacking in artistic unity, coherence, and integrity and can sorely surprise or disappoint the audience.)

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on a wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

They sat in the cafes with their fresh faces and long lovely legs and waited for something outrageous to happen.

Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.

It had been a false spring, a lie like all the other lies, and I found myself wondering it it would ever really come.

You know, we don't always understand what we're living inside of, or how it will matter. We can guess all we want and prepare, too, but we never know how it's going to turn out.

I felt a sense of anticipation of being on the verge of something interesting.

When my exam results arrived several weeks later, I took the simple envelope off where I could be alone with it, my heart gunning, and broke the seal. Inside, instead of a dreadful notice telling me I'd failed, there was an official document, typed and signed. MRS. B. PURVES had been granted an English trainer's licence, good until 1925.

I expected to find my father and Emma packed and on the verge of departure. That had been part of my plan—to spend the worst of the dismantlement in Bombay—but the farm hadn't even been sold yet. My father hadn't made a move.

Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.

She was waiting for more than permission, since she already had permission. She was waiting for an order.

He whom one awaits is, because he is expected, already present, already master.

To say that from the moment her lover had left, O began to await his return would be an understatement. She turned into pure vigil, darkness in waiting expectation of light.

All good things come to those who wait.

the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not wait for the days to end so that they could get on with the rest of their lives.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

você nunca vai saber o que vem depois de sábado quem sabe um século muito mais lindo e mais sábio quem sabe apenas mais um domingo

I'll definitely make you fall in love with me. So prepare yourself.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.