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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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)

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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?

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

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    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.

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    Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

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

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

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    Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

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    Never want something without expecting it

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    Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.

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    Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

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    No matter how much you're expecting it, it's still unexpected when it comes.

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    Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult

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    Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

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    Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

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    Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

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    Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn't asked for and weren't expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.

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    Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

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    Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

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    Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change.

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    Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

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    The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

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    The Church is a family expecting guests.

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    There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

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    There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

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    There is no such thing as expecting too much.

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    Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

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    The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

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    Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

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    To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

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    Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

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    The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

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    To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

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    Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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    We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.

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    When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

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    We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

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    When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

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    Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

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    When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

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    Act to create beauty without expecting results.

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    Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.