Expectancy Quotes

“The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

“Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther

“Having a life expectancy is just part of being self-entitled”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils.”
― Clifford Cohen

“We've never crossed paths before. I've never seen you walking down the street. I don't know the first thing there is to know about you. And the lines of my palm do not reveal nor disclose any untold secrets.

Yet, here I am, holding the door as I whisper in your ear:

"I'll be right across the street when you're done, my child.”
― Malak El Halabi

“I started asking a question that, after years and years of practice, has become almost instinct to me in times of disappointment and frustration: What tiny miracle is there buried beneath this disappointment? ...Miracle Hunters are relentless. And they understand the difference between expectations and being expectant. They look for tiny miracles everywhere but they stay open to being surprised by what exactly that miracle will look and feel like. They have cultivated what I call "Positive Paranoia" and believe that hidden within the disappointment, the failure, the unexpected change of plans, there is a nugget of a miracle just waiting to be discovered. ...The minute you start hunting for miracles, the entire way you see the world changes.”
― Liz Forkin Bohannon, Beginner's Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now

“She was filled with a sense of expectancy — as if at any moment something very wonderful could happen.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“It was the kind of morning on the threshold of dawn when you sense everything holding its breath, the ground soft and expectant, the air eager for the sun, the stillness pregnant with vitality but not quite there yet. Any day now the trees would explode and flowers shoot from the earth and toads make their bid for freedom and scents assail you and the rowdy geese rooster home. But for the moment the land was waiting.”
― Sally Magnusson, Music in the Dark