Expectancy Quotes

• I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

  Anais Nin

  Miracle, Anticipation, Walks

  Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore

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• Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

  Oswald Chambers

  Rooms, States, Constant

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.11, Discovery House

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  Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Christmas, Miracle, Atmosphere

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• I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

  Melody Carlson

  Average, New Day, Hopeful

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• Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Hopeless

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• Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.

  Ernest Holmes

  Hope, Giving, Feelings

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• How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

  Beth Moore

  God, Christian, Bigger And Better Things

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• Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

  Richard J. Foster

  Worship, Obedience, Holy

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left.  Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Faith

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

  Brendon Burchard

  Dream, Believe, Ambition

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• A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results.

  Ernest Holmes

  Change, Thinking, Next

  Ernest Holmes, Michael Beckwith (2010). “How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library”, p.15, Health Communications, Inc.

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• In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Another Life, Consolation

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

  William James

  Life, Determination, Successful

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

  Thomas Troward

  Attitude, Creativity, Creative

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• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Years, Nfl

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

  Annie Lennox

  Birthday, Mean, Thirty Eight

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• The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

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• If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  Muriel Spark

  Death, Practice, Eggs

  "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The comforters; The only problem; The driver's seat; Memento mori".

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• We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

  Ken Buck

  Retirement, Benefits, Increase

  "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

  Julie Bishop

  Research, World, Medical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

  Johnny Vegas

  Wise, Block, Said

  "Tears of a clown" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2006.

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• An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.215, Wildside Press LLC

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• The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.

  Virginia Foxx

  Today, Social, Security

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