Expectant Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing. — Annie Dillard
Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper… — Hector Elizondo
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now… — Elena Ferrante
The poetâ€™s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. Weâ€™re hunched and weaving over… — Eileen Myles
Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough and expectant to receive it. — Joel S. Goldsmith
The stream of plenty always flows towards the open expectant mind — Bob Proctor
The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a burning desire. — Bob Proctor
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life. — Simone Weil
When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant… — William Beebe
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past,… — Nelson Mandela
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will… — Michael Dowd
Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what… — Joyce Meyer
Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What… — Robert Winston
With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of… — Dean Koontz
Yo, cop. We're heading for Screamer's. You wanna come?" Butch looked up at the doorway. Vishous was in the hall with Rhage and Phury behind… — J R Ward
And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no… — Anne Holm
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa

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