And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.
It says 'Bet you were expecting a heart, shaped like a compass...'" Jack paused and pulled the note off the bow tie. "...And then he drew a frowny face.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.
You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.
It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.
NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.
If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!
A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.
Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return
The Kingdom of Heaven is within and it lies beyond your wildest imagination, so expect a roller coaster ride to get there!
People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.
I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.
