Expecting Quotes - Page 30

• Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Rabbits, Bunnies, Hats

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• To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Self, Games

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.54

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• [My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

  Mavis Gallant

  Father, Blessed, Blood

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.136, New York Review of Books

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• My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.

  Emo Philips

  Baby, Adoption, Waiting

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• If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason.

  Jeff Gordon

  Mean, Car, Steps

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• Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.

  A. R. Rahman

  Opposites, Sound, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Golf, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat.

  Lil Wayne

  Thinking, Fire, Sweat

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• They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!

  Brad Stine

  Children, Silly, Special

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• Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.

  Eugene Richards

  Jobs, Real, Editors

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• I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

  Alan Alda

  Art, Giving, Grandparent

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• It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.

  John Cage

  Blood, Years, Two

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• I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.

  Nat Hentoff

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Vietnam, Thanks

  Source: progressive.org

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