Quotes about waiting

Margret saw that this is how it is that folk are made to desire what they know they should not have, they are made to wait for it, so that when it comes, no matter how dark and full of sin and repellent it is, they are glad enough to welcome it.

We achieve freedom when we let go of the weight of societal expectations, and when we find our people – those who love us, care for us, and hold us up when we start slipping.

He’d always half expected that the watch would turn out to have some sort of amazing magical power—turning back time, maybe, or slowing it, or freezing it, or something. It certainly looked magical enough. But if it had any powers at all he’d never found them. Funny how some things you’re sure will pay off never do.

Venice was the only city he’d ever seen that looked the same in real life as it did in pictures. It was consoling that something in this world met expectations.

Tricked out of our expectations, we fall back on our senses. What’s astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

The difference between what you counted on and what you got explained why so many people had unhappy marriages.

Life was what you got, not what you expected.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

"Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself."

Develop high expectations.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.