Expecting Quotes
683 quotes by 567 authors
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Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from…
— Hesketh Pearson
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Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!
— Daisaku Ikeda
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If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or…
— John Steinbeck
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We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
— Robert Breault
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We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real…
— Barack Obama
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Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us…
— Joe Greene
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that…
— Adrienne Rich
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I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always…
— John Lahr
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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
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From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with…
— Graeme Le Saux
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Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to…
— Tom Brokaw
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Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long one. Too long…
— Emmet Fox
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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in…
— Richard Rohr
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something…
— Patrick Carney
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Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls…
— Lynne Cheney
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You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.
— Sarah Wayne Callies
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Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys…
— Silvia Colloca
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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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