quotes about Expecting
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I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
-- Andy Stanley -
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
-- Bear Grylls -
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)
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
-- Bernie MacSource : "Bernie Mac Interviewed - 'Pride'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 20, 2007.
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You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.
-- Beth Moore -
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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
-- Bob Dylan -
The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.
-- Brian Weiss -
I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.
-- Carlo Ancelotti -
I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
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Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
-- Chris Pine -
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
-- Conrad Hall -
I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
-- Dana Reeve -
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
-- Dominic Cooper -
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
-- Erica Jong -
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.
-- Frederick Buechner -
The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.
-- George R. StewartSource : George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
-- Graham SwiftSource : Graham Swift (2012). “The Sweet Shop Owner”, p.234, Pan Macmillan
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Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
-- Haruki Murakami -
In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.
-- Helen Slater -
Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.
-- Hugh HewittSource : "How High Will Your Health Insurance Premiums Go In 2015?". townhall.com. October 28, 2014.
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I should stop expecting so much.
-- Ishida MitsunariSource : "Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". Video Game "Samurai Warriors", 2004.
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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.
-- Jarvis Cocker -
At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
-- Julie Burchill -
A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.
-- Kate MortonSource : Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
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Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.
-- Kevin DeYoung -
I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.
-- Kris Allen -
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -
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.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
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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.
-- Marc Jacobs -
Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.
-- Marilyn Manson -
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
-- Marjorie M. LiuSource : Marjorie M. Liu (2008). “The Iron Hunt”, p.49, Penguin
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Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult
-- Marshall Sylver -
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Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
-- Mary Oliver -
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...
-- Mary Russell Mitford -
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
-- May SartonSource : May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.73, Open Road Media
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I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.
-- Mayer Hawthorne -
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You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.
-- Orson Scott Card -
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies -
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
-- Placido Domingo -
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We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.
-- Ryan Stiles -
Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.
-- Shalom AuslanderSource : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.211, Penguin
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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.
-- Sia Furler -
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
-- Susan Cheever -
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What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
-- Wendelin Van Draanen -
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God
-- William Carey -
I do not think the British want to become America's "Airstrip One," as the British Isles are called in George Orwell's "1984." The EU's internal market was a massive success even before the UK joined it, and it joined because there was no real alternative. So while British tabloids are expecting to be punished by Germany, Brexit is punishment in itself.
-- Anthony GleesSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.
-- Jennifer O'Neill -
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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?
-- Rebecca Hamilton -
When you're expecting a baby, there's a lot you can plan for, but when it happens early you just have to jump into it. Whatever plans you had, everything goes out the window.
-- Rob Huebel -
Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.
-- Robert G. Picard -
My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read your mind. That's where a friend or an editor comes in. A great editor will tell you straight when you've drifted into the latter territory.
-- Zia Haider Rahman -
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I don't know anything about you, so when you randomly come up and grab my ass, this isn't a friend doing it. It's like, "Who the f### is doing...? I was not expecting that."
-- Brad Williams -
Just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".
-- Alison Goldfrapp -
No matter how much you're expecting it, it's still unexpected when it comes.
-- Jason McAteer -
I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.
-- Josh Howard -