Best 101 quotes in «expecting quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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".

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

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

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

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.

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.

Never want something without expecting it

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.

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

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

Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The Church is a family expecting guests.

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

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

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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