Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The worship of God should be done without expecting anything in return” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
Being awarded the OBE was a great honour and something I had not been expecting. — Nasser Hussain Copy Share Image
“although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My fans were expecting me there and I did not want to disappoint them. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it,… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit… — John Stott Copy Share Image
My wife and I are just praying daily for our kids. We are trying to raise our kids to go all in… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image