Quotes about Expectation

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

There is a reason God has alerted us to "look up" for the coming of the Lord.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I knew you were behind the tapestry," he said. "I also knew the railing was about to give way. I was waiting for you, waiting for your fall." Waiting all my life for you, he added silently, waiting all my life for you to fall in love with me.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

I thought Bentleys were supposed to be grandma cars.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.