Quotes about Expectation

The expectation that he will come again—in fulfillment of all human longing at the end of time. "Parousia" is the technical name for this expectation; "eschatology.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Let's embrace the expectation that we will not be treated better than the early disciples when we share Christ the way they did.

It will come back to you," cried the Rector, feverishly. "It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

The earth's history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever.

All promise outruns performance.