Best 101 quotes in «expecting quotes» category

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

Things could always be, but some things will never have been.

Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)

There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed. Expect everything - or expect nothing.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

You get what you expect in life. Expect great things in life. Live your best life.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.

Certainly nobody gets married wanting to get divorced or even expecting to - except me.

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.

I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would have it, keeping peace, in which case they're not there to actively intervene and stop violence? When we send them into these places, do we expect they will respond forcefully?

I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.

Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.

Just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just looked at me like I was — nothing. An annoyance, maybe.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.