Quotes about Expectation

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...

In 1933, one student said, "Among the public, there spread the expectation that the salvation of the German people would now come from Hitler. But in the lectures we were told that salvation comes only from Jesus Christ.

There's no sense to expect the fruits where the Word really is no longer being preached.

I do not know what the future holds for me.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present - she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

and sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to. I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present—she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.

For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.