Expecting Quotes

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

I should stop expecting so much.

I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

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

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

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.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

I don't know anything about you, so when you randomly come up and grab my ass, this isn't a friend doing it. It's like, "Who the f### is doing...? I was not expecting that."

No matter how much you're expecting it, it's still unexpected when it comes.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

Never want something without expecting it

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

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

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

Give, expecting nothing there of.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would have it, keeping peace, in which case they're not there to actively intervene and stop violence? When we send them into these places, do we expect they will respond forcefully?

Start believing bigger, dreaming bigger & expecting bigger.

Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.