Top 1200 Expecting Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

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

Being awarded the OBE was a great honour and something I had not been expecting.

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)

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

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

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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