P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

We wait always for something that does not come.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

He who awaits much can expect little.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

Instant gratification takes too long.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

Wait and see.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

to hope was to expect