Expectations Quotes
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“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
“'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.”
“He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
“Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.”
“Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.”
“It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.”
“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]”
“He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.”
“'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.”
“Expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.”
“"Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir,
And sighs for sables which he must not wear.”
“There have sat
The live-long day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.”
“I had also read
on the face of surroundings
some broken
some disconnected
some cracked expectations.”
“Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.”
“Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Sometimes I hover,
And near the sacred gate,
With longing eyes I wait,
Expectant of her.”
“Serene I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.”
“ἐὰν μὴ ἔλπηται ἀνέλπιστον, οὐκ ἐξευρήσει
• He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.”