Expectations

"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."

""Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear."

"I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression."

"I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]"

"He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up.""

"Everything comes if a man will only wait."

"ἐὰν μὴ ἔλπηται ἀνέλπιστον, οὐκ ἐξευρήσει"

"Also, there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth anguish of nations not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and its agitation. People will become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken."

"Since yesterday I have been in Alcalá. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa, When that dull distance shall no more divide us; And I no more shall scale thy wall by night To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now."

"PANDORA: What else remains for me? EPIMETHEUS: Youth, hope and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream."

"I had also read on the face of surroundings some broken some disconnected some cracked expectations."

"Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed."

"Evidence of the destructiveness of unrealistic expectations can be found in the literature on cognition and marriage. For example, people who feel that their relationship standards (e.g., how alike they believe they should be, the degree to which they should engage in acts of caring and concern for each other) are unmet are more inclined to report more negative cognitive and affective reactions to marital problems (Baucom et al., 1996). Further, research on relationship beliefs indicates that idealistic and unrealistic beliefs, like “mind reading is expected” (partners who truly care about and know one another should be able to sense each other’s needs and preferences without overt communication), “sexual perfectionism” (one must be a “perfect” sexual partner) and “disagreement is destructive” (disagreements in marriage are a sign of impending doom) are positively associated with marital distress (eidelson & Epstein, 1982; Epstein & Eidelson, 1981) and negatively associated with the desire to maintain the relationship (Eidelson & Epstein, 1982)."

"Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits."

"There have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome."

"He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how."

"Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use."

"Expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense."

"'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were."

"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."

"'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation."

"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate."

"It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do."

"It's a different way to begin separating out nature and nurture, and to see how different this boy would be. But I have many times been asked if my children have followed me into research — it's something people subconsciously expect. For a clone, the pressure would be even greater. People would expect the clone to be like the original, and put expectations and limitations on them, and that's the reason why I don't like to use that technique. I think people should be wanted as individuals."

"Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed."

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."