Quotes about Expectation

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

We should live with a holy anticipation of what's around the corner.

if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!

Lord, surprise us.

Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.

Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.