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• Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

  Lisa Gardner

  Inspirational, Velvet

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• Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Love You, Violet

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

  Darren Criss

  Artist

  "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

  Alan Paton

  Taught, Results, Endeavor

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• When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?

  Tea Obreht

  Jobs, Children, Men

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• "Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Fun, Blessed, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Vices

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• They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pain, Labor

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.9, London : Hurst, Robinson ; Edinburgh : A. Constable

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• To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

  Kate Millett

  Appreciation, Love Is, Return

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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• God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Lifetime, Science Fiction

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• Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Years, Jesuit, Heard

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• Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Choices, World

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.835, Aum Publications

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• Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Blessed, Anticipation, Disappointed

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• Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Disappointment, Blessed, Expectations

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Half, Gryffindor

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• When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Omission

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• The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Wise, Disappointment, Expectations

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• pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beer, Complaining, Shrimp

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Strong, Kissing

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• God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

  Bill Johnson

  Trying, Invasion, Should

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines. I learned and adapted to my search. I expect nothing from you. Question the truth of anything you confront. How does it apply to yourself and the trail you are pursuing?

  Brice Marden

  Artist, Discipline, Doe

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• What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Degrees, Bulls, Mouths

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons”, p.148

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• Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

  Daniel Defoe

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• When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Trying, Attention, Kind

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• La socie  te   ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Should, Persons, Asks

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