Quotes about Expectation

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day --- When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.