Top 1200 Expecting Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.

The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

If you're not going to the World Cup expecting to win, then you probably shouldn't go.

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

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

I'm expecting the best John Thompson. I'd be a fool to expect anything less.

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

I got married, and it was a bit of a whirlwind I wasn't expecting for the next phase for Penn and I.

When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

You don't sign up to 'Trainspotting' expecting glamour.

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

I didn't climb into that tree expecting to become a spokesperson.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

The dreams you choose to believe in come to be. When you feel in your innermost being that you will achieve what you set out to do, you open the way for miracles. Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum. What you expect to happen, happens. If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed

When we won gold I was expecting overwhelming relief, but it just didn't come.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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

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

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

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

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

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

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.

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

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

You know what's funny about the people who say mean things? There's a certain part of Twitter that is literally shouting into the void, and then sometimes when the void shouts back it's like, "Whoa! I wasn't expecting that. I got called out." And then if you have a conversation, you find out they like something or they like that or they have questions about that.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored.