Expecting Quotes

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

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

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

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

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

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

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

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

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.

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

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

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

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

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

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

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

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

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

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.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

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

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

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

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Never want something without expecting it

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

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

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

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

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.

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.

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

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.