Expectant Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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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
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
— Annie Dillard
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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
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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
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The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over…
— Eileen Myles
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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
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The stream of plenty always flows towards the open expectant mind
— Bob Proctor
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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
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Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
— May Sarton
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
— Simone Weil
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Expectant Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 33 Expectant Quotes, led by these top contributors: