Quotes About Expectation

What I'd noticed was that here, in the windshadow of the mountain, it often smelled like rain. It might be raining up on the ridge, I might see the veils and rags of rain hanging down out of the scudding clouds, I might see shrouds of rain hauled over the country the way a fishing boat might drag a net, but—no rain here. A spatter, maybe, then nothing. Willy told me when I first moved in that it was like living in a strip bar. So close, looks so good and you never get laid.

People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasnít it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

Then Samsonís wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.

“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didnít I say, ëDo not deceive me?í”

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”

But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.

Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.

Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.