Quotes about Expectation

I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.

Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody thought he could. How 'bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs fell to pieces. Now ain't that slavery or what is it?

But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs.

Trying to be patient with people without loving them is like expecting there to be heat without actually lighting the torch.

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.