Top 1200 Expecting Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

I had some pretty weird fan mail growing up, sometimes from prison and wherever else. Nothing too intense. Some superfans that maybe went a little overboard with gifts and whatnot, expecting something other than what it could be with a kid. That's a little weird. But at the same time, it's like, "Hey, I'm getting free video games. I'm not going to return it if you sent it!" Thankfully we never felt unsafe.

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

Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change.

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

If teams come to Anfield, I don't think they will be expecting to get an easy game.

I feel like people are expecting me to fail; therefore, I expect myself to win.

Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime

When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

We cannot continue leaving teachers behind but expecting them to lead the way for our children.

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

I recorded my first song, 'Greetings,' and it got so much attention on SoundCloud. I was not expecting that.

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

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.

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

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

In 2004, I don't think any Silver Jews fan was probably expecting another record.

I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.

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

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

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

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.

People aren't expecting me to look how I do. But that's one of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise factor.

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

I like to do an interview when the other person isn't expecting it. I find it's more spontaneous.

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.

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

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

I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more and more from me. I want to do 'different' work - good and memorable roles - so that audience appreciate me more. That's why I love to surprise my audience with something they never expect me to do.

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

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

The pressure is high because of course... everyone's expecting me to win the gold medal in Tokyo.

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

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