Expecting Quotes

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  Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  Dennis Wholey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

  Dan O'Brien

  Morning, Mean, Gold

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• And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

  Jenna Elfman

  Independent, Buying, Television

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Parent, Forever

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

  Jodi Picoult

  Keys, Littles, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

  Donald Cargill

  Father, Son, Names

  "The Scots Worthies". Book by John Howie and William M'Gavin, Vol. 2, p. 344, 1830.

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• If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Caught, Composer, Aim

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• Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love Life, Best Husband, Rewards

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• I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Thinking, People, Wow

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• I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Children, Average

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• And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

  Doris Lessing

  Moving, Aging, Wonderful

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Drug

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• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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• Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

  Andrew Murray

  God, Faith, Christian

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• I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Running

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL

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• So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

  June Allyson

  Husband, Wife, Roles

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• Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Historical Novels, Asking

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• The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Loss, Half, Speech

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• The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Success, Encouragement, Determination

  Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr

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• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  Mac Davis

  Redneck, Golf, Guy

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• At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Albums

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• I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

  Alan Turing

  Believe, Thinking, Machines

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 442, 1950.

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